IRWIN, WALLACE

(1876), Amer. author and journalist; 6. in Oneida, New York. He graduated from Stanford University, in 1899, and began journal-, istic work as a special writer for the San Francisco Examiner. Editor, The Overland Monthly, 1902; Burlesque writer for the Republic Theater, San Francisco, 1903; Topical verse writer for the New York Globe, 1905-1906; on the staff of Collier’s Weekly, 1906-1907, Public a. tions: The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, 1902; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr., Nautical Lays of a Landsman; The Sign of the Dollar, 1904; China town Ballads, 1905; Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, 1907; Mr. Togo, Maid of All Work, 1913; Venus in the East, 1918; The Blooming Angel, 1919; The Suffering Husband, 1920; and Seed of the Sun, 1921