SMITH

(CHARLES) ALPHONSO (1864), author and educator; }. in son College, N. C., and Johns Hopkins, where he was instructor in English 1890-93; profe or of English, Louisiana, State University, 1893-1902; profe or of English graduate department, University of North Carolina, 1902-09; profe or of English Literature, Uni profe or of American History, University of Berlin, 1909-10. Head of he department of English, U. 8S. Naval Academy from 1917. Publications: Studies in English Syntax, 1906; The American Short Story, 1912; What Can Literature Do For Me, 1913; Biography of O. Henry, 1916; Keynote Studies in Books of the Bible, 1919; Poe: How to Know Him, 1920. A ociate editor, World Orations, and others.