Authors in the February Atlantic

General Articles

Nathaniel S. Shaler is Professor of Geology and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. He has been for many years the geologist in charge of the Atlantic division of the United States Survey, and he is the author of a long list of books on scientific and economic subjects, together with several volumes in belles-lettres. William Everett is a well-known educator and man of letters of frequent appearance in the Atlantic. He was a member of Congress from 1893 until 1895. He is the author of many volumes of essays and criticism. Charles A. Conant is the treasurer of the Morton Trust Company, and a trained writer upon financial subjects. One of his publications is an important work upon the Principles of Money and Banking. Jesse W. Weik is the President of the Greencastle Indiana Telephone Company. He is the co-author of a life of Abraham Lincoln and a frequent contributor to the newspapers and magazines on historical subjects. E. E. Wilson, a native of the state of Texas, and a graduate of Williams College, is now practicing law in Chicago. Frederic R. Guernsey is the editor of the “ Mexican Herald,” City of Mexico.

Historical and Literary Papers

Andrew D. White is one of the most distinguished American educators, authors, and diplomatists. He was for many years President of Cornell University. From 1871 till 1881 he was United States Minister to Germany, and from 1892 till 1894 he was United States Minister to Russia. Later he was for five years Ambassador to Germany. He has enjoyed many other public appointments. He is the author, besides other books, of The Warfare of Science with Theology and of lectures on mediæval and modern history. The first paper in this series dealing with the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason was Fra Paolo Sarpi, which appeared in the Atlantic for January, 1904. W. J. Henderson is the musical critic of the New York “ Sun ” and a frequent contributor to the Atlantic. Mrs. Annie Russell Marble is the author of several volumes of belles-lettres and a contributor to the best literary journals. W. C. Hazlitt, one of the best known of English men of letters, is the grandson of William Hazlitt the essayist, whose Memoirs he compiled. He has edited an edition of the letters of Charles Lamb, together with many other ventures in English scholarship. Royal Cortissoz is the critic of literature and art of the New York “Tribune.”

The Stories

Maarten Maartens is the pen name of the distinguished Dutch novelist, Joost Marius Willem Van der Poorten-Schwartz. Among his better known novels are “An Old Maid’s Love,” “God’s Fool,” “The Greater Glory,” “My Lady Nobody,” “Her Memory.” Latta Griswold is assistant rector of Christ Church at Newport. Henry Beers is Professor of English literature in Yale University. He is the author of a life of N. P. Willis, of a history of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, of a history of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century, and of various other volumes of prose and verse.