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Rh as assistant editor of a new edition of the Standard Dictionary, and had contributed a good deal of verse and prose to various papers before he was appointed literary editor of The Churchman. He was soon known in his own and other periodicals as an able and delightful essayist and reviewer; he conducted the Poetry department of The Literary Digest and Current Literature, and wrote a quarterly article on poetry for the American Review of Reviews. In 1913 he emerged as what he called 'a hard newspaper man,' and became a special writer for the New York Sunday Times. Mr. Holliday gives a graphic and amusing picture of the inexhaustible energy with which he got through enormous amounts of work all day at his office; while at home:

'Night after night he would radiantly walk up and down the floor singing a lullaby to one of his children whom he carried screaming in his arms while he dictated between vociferous sounds to his secretary or wife...his wife frequently driven by the drowsiness of two in the