Deaths

Brooks Adams, 78, historian (The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma), 13 February 1927.

James Lane Allen, 75, local-color novelist (A Kentucky Cardinal), 18 February 1925.

John Kendrick Bangs, magazine editor and humorist (A Houseboat on the Styx), 21 January 1922.

Nora Bayes, 47, singer ("Shine on Harvest Moon"), 19 March 1928.

Henry A. Beers, 79, literary critic, 7 September 1926.

George Bellows, 42, painter, 8 January 1925.

William Crary Brownell, 76, literary critic and editor, 22 July 1928.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, 74, author (Little Lord Fauntleroy), 29 October 1924.

John Burroughs, 83, naturalist writer, 29 March 1921.

Donn Byrne, 39, Irish American writer (Messer Marco Polo), 19 June 1928.

George Washington Cable, 80, local-color writer (Old Creole...

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