Studies and Reviews
- Halsey.
- Harkins.
- Bk. Buyer, 20 (’00): 183 (portrait), 208.
- Bookm. 15 (’02): 412 (portrait).
- Critic, 42 (’03): 105 (portrait).
- Harp. W. 46 (’02): 891; 51 (’07): 23, 28. (Portraits.)
Rex Ellingwood Beach (Michigan, 1877)—novelist.
Writer of novels of adventure, mainly about Alaska. For bibliography, see Who’s Who in America.
(Charles) William Beebe—Nature writer.
Born at Brooklyn, 1877. B. S., Columbia, 1898; post-graduate work, 1898-9. Honorary Curator of Ornithology, New York Zoölogical Society since 1899; director of the British Guiana Zoölogical Station. Has traveled extensively in Asia, South America, and Mexico, especially, for purposes of observation.
Suggestions for Reading
1. Although Mr. Beebe is preëminently an ornithologist, he belongs to literature by reason of the volumes of nature studies listed below. A comparison of his books with those of the English ornithologist, W. H. Hudson (cf. Manly and Rickert, Contemporary British Literature) is illuminative of the merits of both.
2. Another interesting comparison may be made between Mr. Beebe’s descriptions of the jungle in Jungle Peace and H. M. Tomlinson’s in Sea and Jungle (cf. Manly and Rickert, op. cit.).
3. An analysis of the use of suggestion in appeal to the different senses brings out one of the main sources of Mr. Beebe’s charm as a writer.