BARTLESVILLE

a city of Oklahoma. Center of important petroleum fields; zinc smelters. Rapid growth in recent years. Pop. (1920) 14,417. (1876), writer, was born at Haver hill, Ma ., and educated abroad under private tutors, and at And over, N. H., and Harvard. For some little time he was engaged on newspaper work in Boston, working first for the Boston Record and then for the Boston Herald. His published works include Mistre Dorothy, Joan of the Alley, The Web of the Golden Spider, The Lady of the Lane, The Triflers, and many short stories contributed to magazines. Amer. publisher and compiler; member of Boston bookselling and publishing firm; memorable as the compiler of Familiar Quotations, first pub. 1855; also pub. an exhaustive Shakespeare Concordance (1894).