LYLE, EUGENE P., JR

1873), Author. &. at Dallas, meats 1879 removed to Kansas City. Educated Kansas City public schools, 1880-92 and attended University of Michigan, 189294. 1894-97 on editorial staff of Kansas City paper. 1897-1900, 1903-5, 1906-7 did literary work in Mexico. 1900-2 staff correspondent for magazine in Europe, 1905-7 staff correspondent for magazine, and also from 1908-10. 1907-16 did farming in Virginia. Author of: The Mi our tan, 1905; The Lone Star, 1907; Blaze Derringer, 1910; The Transformation of Krag, 1911; D’ Ariagnan of Kansas, 1912-1914 in magazines; A Dash of magazine, 1913; The War of 1938, 1918. Day Before Yesterday’s Child, 1922. Since 1911 writing short stories. 1606), Eng. writer; b. Kent, Eng. ed. Oxford. L.is famous as inventor of Euphuism a flowery, aureate, stilted prose diction receiving its name from his novels Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, 1579, and Euphues and his England, 1580. L.’s plays are important more for their fine lyrics and brilliant wit than for their stories; best known are Endymion, Midas, Love’s Metamorphosis. He wrote for the court and his plays are related to the Masque. He undoubtedly had much influence on Shakespeare (ef. As You Like It, the dialogue of Be at rice and Benedick in Much Ado).