The New Student's Reference Work/Allen, Charles Grant

Allen, Charles Grant, a Canadian naturalist and story-teller, of Scotch parentage, who won fame in England as an exponent of evolution, a popular writer on scientific subjects and a psychological novelist. He was, perhaps, most at home in the popular essay, in the field of æsthetics and semi-science. He has written delightfully on flowers, birds and insects as well as in the realm of fiction. His best known works are, in novels, The Tents of Shem and The Woman Who Did, and in popular science, The Evolutionist at Large, Vignettes from Nature and Science in Arcady. As a disciple of the great evolutionist of the age, he wrote a sympathetic Life of Darwin for the series of "English Worthies."