Mr. Bynner in Search of Chinese Inspiration Mr, Witter Bynner, American poet and playwright, has been for a few days in Shanghai and returned on Tuesday to Peking where he is now engaged in translating and compiling "The Tang An-theology of 300 Poems'? which were written in the Tang dynasty.
This is Mr. Bynner's second trip to China. He will be in Shanghai again in February, after which he will return to the States to go to his home in New York after spending a short time on the Pacific Coast. Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1881. He received his A. B. from Hlarvard in 1902, was assistant editor of '"McClure's Magazine," and advisory editor with Small. Maynard, & Ca. He was the Phi Beta Kappa poet of Harvard in 1911 and Instructor of English at the University of California and Lecturer on Poctry and kindred subjects in 1919.
Among the large collection of works that Mr. Bynner has _already completed are "Young Har-yard," "Tiger," "The Little "King," The New World," "Iphigonia in Tauris," "Any Girl," "Grenstone Poertis." The Canticle of Praise," and The Beloved Stranger."
Mrs. Simeon Ford, who has been associated with Bynner in some of his work, has also been in China for the past month and sailed Monday last on the T.K.K.S. Siberia Maru for New York vii San Francisco, Mrs. Ford is an autheress whose great work has been the writing of plays for children, chief among which are "Imagina" and "Snickerty-Nick," which last was illustrated by Arthur Rackam and contained poems by Witter Bynner. She is also the authoress of "King Solomon and the Fair Shulamite.""
It is especially interesting that. in collaboration with Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, Mrs. Ford wrote a biography of George Frederick Watts, the famous painter.
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