Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Herseros, deals with the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's Ecast of his popularity with the ladies. He concocts a scheme to prove his popularity, but the plot is discovered by his friends and the joke is turned on him. In "El Cochero y M. Corneta," the author, Ramon de la Cruy, treats the adventures of Nicodemus, a coachman who is discharge by his master for careless driving...
...University in 1885, where he made a name for himself in oratory. Entering a law office, he was soon admitted to the bar, and practiced law until his election in 1899 to the United States Senate, of which he was at that time the youngest member. He is the author of "The Russian Advance," "The Young Man and the World," "History of the Philippines," and has also contributed to many of the leading magazines...
...dramatist and poet of no mean ability. After graduating from Harvard he studied and traveled abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America and England...
Frank Roy Fraprie, the author of the following book reviewed by Dr. Webster, received the degree of B. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School in 1898 and S. M. from the Graduate School in 1902. He was a student at the University of Munich in 1902-03, and later taught in various high schools and the University of Illinois. From 1901 to 1905 he was an associate editor of the Photo Era, Boston; and since 1905 has been editor of the "American Photography," New York, and "The Electrician and Mechanic," Boston. He is the author of several books on chemical...
...Foundation for 1908-09. Doctor King is president of Oberlin College, from which he was graduated in 1879. He was awarded a Harvard degree of A.M. in 1883, and appointed Professor of Theology at Oberlin in 1891, Dean in 1901, and President in the following year. He is the author of Outline of Edmann's History of Philosophy," "Outline of Microcosmus of Hermann Lotze," "The Appeal of the Child," "Reconstructions of Theology," "Theology and the Social Consciousness," and also various pamphlets on Philosophy...