CABELL, JAMES BRANCH

(1879), American author b. at Richmond, Va. and educated at William and Mary College. For a year he was instructor of French and Greek at William and Mary, and later worked on the Richmond Times, the New York Herald and the Richmond News. In 1902 he began contributing to the magazines, writing e ays, short stories, translations and papers on historical and biographical subjects, and conducting research work both in America and Europe. For two Ph eh he worked in a coal mine in est Virginia, and later became Historian of the Virginia Society of Colonial Wars. Many of his novels have attracted much attention, and one or two, indeed, considerable discu ion. Amongst the best-known are Jurgen, Gallantry, The Line.of Love and The Cords of Vanity.