NETTE, JEAN. Challenge, 119.

NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY.  Born at Bilston, Eng., June 6, 1862.  Educated at
  Oxford; practised law until 1899; editor of Monthly Review 1900-04;
  Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature; created a Knight
  1915.  Among his books are “Taken from the Enemy,” “Mordred,” “Admirals
  All,” “The Island Race,” “The Old Country,” “The Book of Cupid,”
  “Poems Old and New,” and “The New June.” Play the Game, 162.

NOYES, ALFRED. Born in Staffordshire, Eng., Sept. 16, 1880.  Educated at
  Oxford; received honorary degree of Litt.D. from Yale 1913; gave the
  Lowell Lectures in America on “The Sea in English Poetry” 1913;
  elected to Professorship of Modern Poetry at Princeton 1914;
  temporarily attached to the foreign office 1916.  Among his books are
  “Collected Poems” (three volumes), “The Elfin Artist,” “The New
  Morning,” “The Lord of Misrule,” “A Belgian Christmas Eve,” “The
  Wine-Press,” “Tales of the Mermaid Tavern,” “Sherwood,” “The Enchanted
  Island,” “Drake,” “Beyond the Desert,” “Walking Shadows,” “Open
  Boats,” “The Golden Hynde.”  “The Flower of Old Japan,” and “A Salute
  from the Fleet.” The New Duckling, 34.

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O SHEEL, SHEAMUS.  Born at New York City, Sept. 19, 1886.  Educated in the
  New York City grammar and high schools; took special work in English
  and history at Columbia 1906-8.  Member of the Poetry Society of
  America and the Gaelic Society.  Interested in political and civic
  reforms.  Among his books are “Blossomy Bough” and “The Light Feet of
  Goats.” He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed.

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PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER ("Barry Cornwall").  Born at Leeds, Eng., Nov. 21,
  1787; died Oct. 5, 1874.  Educated at Harrow; schoolmate of Byron and
  Sir Robert Peel; called to the bar 1831; commissioner of lunacy
  1832-61.  Among his books are “Dramatic Scenes, and Other Poems,” “A
  Sicilian Story,” “Flood of Thessaly,” and “English Songs.” Sit Down,
  Sad Soul.

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RICE, GRANTLAND.  Born at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1880.  Attended
  Vanderbilt University.  Worked as sporting writer on the Atlanta
  Journal; came to New York City in 1911.  His sporting column, “The
  Sportlight,” is said to be more widely syndicated and more widely read
  than any other writing on topics of sport in the United States.  Irvin
  S. Cobb says that it often reaches the height of pure literature, and
  as a writer of homely, simple American verse Grantland Rice is held by
  many to be the logical successor to James Whitcomb Riley.  He is author
  of “Songs of the Stalwart” and editor of the American Golfer. Brave
  Life; “Might Have Been”; On Being Ready; On Down the Road; The
  Answer; The Call of the Unbeaten; The Game; The Trainers.