+Walter Conrad Arensberg+--poet.

Illustrates in his _Poems_, 1914, and _Idols_, 1916, conversion from the
old forms of verse to the new. Cf. also _Others_, 1916.

For studies, cf. Untermeyer; also _Dial_, 69 ('20): 61 _Poetry_, 8 ('16):
208.



+Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Mrs. George H. Bowen Atherton)+--novelist.

Born at San Francisco, 1859. Great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin.
Educated in private schools. Has lived much abroad.

Mrs. Atherton's work is very uneven, but is interesting as reflecting
different aspects of social and political life in this country.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Doomswoman. 1892.
Patience Sparhawk and Her Times. 1897.
*American Wives and English Husbands. 1898. (Revised edition, 1919;
under the title _Transplanted_.)
The Californians. 1898.
*Senator North. 1900.
The Aristocrats. 1901.
*The Conqueror. 1902.