COLLINS, JAMES HIRAM

(1873), b. in Detroit, Mich. Public school education. After learning the printers trade, traveled as a journeyman, at one time with a circus. In 1907 became connected with the Saturday Evening Post as correspondent and in that year and again in 1910 made trips to Europe to investigate busine . Volunteered with U.S. Food Administration in 1917 and was a ociated with the publication dept. of the Commi ion of Public Information. In 1918 was with the Emergency Fleet Corp. and finally was a istant to Edward N. Hurley of the U.S. Shipping Board. Was correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger in South America in 1919. Author: Human Nature in Selling Goods, 1909; The Art of Handling Men, 1910; The Great Taxicab Robbery, 1912; and Straight Busine in South America, 1908), Eng. author; prof. of Eng. Lit., Birmingham; a voluminous writer on literary subjects, and a good critic. an Irish soldier and political leader, 6. in Clonapilty, County Cork, Ireland. He served in the government post office service during his youth but early took an active part in the political discu ions in Ireland and in the years’ preceding the World War. He enlisted at the outbreak of the war and served in the British Aviation Corps. In 1916, however, he was active in the so-called rebellion in Dublin, but escaped the fate of the other leaders in that movement by remaining in hiding. A price was set on his head by the British Government but he succeeded in eluding all efforts to capture him. He recognized the impo ibility of securing the independence of Ireland and upon the offer of Lloyd George to amnesty all political offenders during the discu ion of the roposed arrangement between Great ritain and Ireland, he was one of the delegates and signed the provisional treaty or agreement in 1921. As commander of war and premier, he exercised during 1921-22, practically dictatorial powers in Ireland and relentle ly pursued those who were attempting to set up an independent republic. During the riots in Dublin, Cork and other cities in 1922, he commanded in person the forces of the Free State. He was a a inated after riding into an ambush while on his way in a motor car from Cork to visit other points in which hostilities were in progre . His lo was a great blow to the Free State as he was recognized as the strongest figure in the government. Eng. artist; painter of genre pictures; A.R.A., 1815; R.A. 1820; f. of Wilkie C., novelist. 1899), English novelist, 6. London, Eng., better known as Wilkie Collins. He was the s. of a landscape and portrait painter. In his youth he lived for some time in Italy and later became a clerk with a London firm of tea merchants with a view of embarking on a busine career. From that sphere he pa ed to the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. Art and literature meantime attracted him, and he finally met Dickens, an acquaintance which shaped his future work. He had already written a romance, Ant on in a, or the Fall of Rome, and Rambles Beyond Railways. Thereafter he was a frequent contributor to Dickens’ Household Words and All the Year Round. He wrote several novels (some in collaboration with Dickens), and numerous short stories, but it was not until 1860, when his Woman in White appeared, that he became preeminent as a _ novelist. Another of his famous books is the. Moonstone, published in 1868. Collins visited the United States in 1873 and 1874 and gave readings from his works. Several of his books were adapted into plays and gained great stage popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.