The Citizen.—Dwyer
The Indian of the Reservation.—Coolidge
The Night Attack.—Pier
The Path of Glory.—Pulver
Sergt. Warren Comes Back from France.—Ames
The Coward.—Empey
Château-Thierry.—Bartlett
SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND THE STORIES
SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND THE STORIES
Dorothy Canfield (Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher), the author of Home Fires in France from which “A Little Kansas Leaven” was taken, is one of the most convincing and brilliant writers of the times. She always writes with a purpose, but as all of her work is characterized by originality, clearness, and the vital quality of human sympathy, there is not a dull line in any of her fiction or her educational writings.
Home Fires in France is a truthful record of Mrs. Fisher’s impressions of life in tragic, devastated France during the Great War. During much of this period the author was working for the relief of those made blind by war. The tremendous appeal to America made by this book testifies to the sincerity and the genius of the author.
Dorothy Canfield was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1879. She obtained degrees from Ohio State University and from Columbia and studied and traveled abroad extensively, becoming an accomplished linguist. She is the author, under the name of Dorothy Canfield, of some of the most brilliant fiction of the day, The Squirrel-Cage, The Bent Twig, and other novels, and under her married name, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, of some valuable educational works, The Montessori Mother, Mothers and Children, and other books of progressive ideas in education.
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