JORDAN, ELIZABETH

(1867-), an American editor and author, 6. in Milwaukee, Wis. She graduated from the Convent of Notre Dame, in Milwaukee, and was for ten years on the editorial | staff of the New York ‘World, a istant editor on the Sunday World for three years, and editor of Harper’s Bazar from 1900 to 1913, continuing as literary advisor to Harpers’ Bros., the publishing firm, until 1918. She has written many books, among them being: Tales of the City Room, 1898; Many Kingdoms, 1908; The Wings of Youth, 1917, and a number of plays, including The Lady from Oklahoma, (produced in 1911); and The Girl. in the Mirror, 1919., cent.), writer on Gothic history; entered service of Gunthigis, a Gothic chieftain, but subsequently, embracing Christians ity, became @ monk; said to have been bp. of Kroton. His most notable work tory of Goths down to fall of Ostrogothi¢ kingdom in Italy; narrative mainly taken from a lost history by Ca iodorus, J, also wrote De Breviatione chronicum, generally known as the Romana, a his« tory of world down to Just in i an’s time. worked in India; bp. of ‘Columbum,’ Kulam, Travancore, 1330; author of Epistles urging a papal fleet in Indian Ocean, and of Mirabdilia, containing famous descriptions of manners, customs, climate, fauna, and flora of India.