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Rolfe, William James

scholar, educator, author, was born Dec. 10, 1827, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a distinguished Shakespearean scholar and educator of Cambridge. He has published Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated editions of Shakespeare, the Friendly Edition in twenty volumes, and a School Edition in forty volumes; and a series of annotated editions of selections from Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith, Scott, and other English poets.

He has also edited Craik's English of Shakespeare; and is co-author with J. H.

Hanson of several classical text-books, and with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge Physics.

ROLLINS, MRS. ALICE MARLAND [WELLINGTON], author, poet, was born June 12, 1847, in Boston, Mass. She is a writer of New York city; and the author of My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems; The Ring of Amethyst, and Other Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts of Children; The Three Tetons; From Palm to Glacier; and Uncle Tom's Tenement, a study of New York tenementhouse life. ROLLINS, MRS. CLARA [SHER- WOOD], author, was born in 1868 in Missouri. She is a Boston writer of short stories; and the author of A Burne Jones Head; and Threads of Life.