VITA
The author of this dissertation, Ernest E. Leisy, was born on a farm near Mound Ridge, Kansas, December 22, 1887. He was graduated from the two-year course of the Mound Ridge High School in 1906, taught public school the following year, attended Bethel College Academy at Newton, Kansas, from which he was graduated in 1909, taught public school in 1910–11, attended the University of Kansas, receiving his bachelor’s degree from this institution in 1913. He received a University Scholarship at Harvard where he did graduate work in English in 1913–14. From 1914 to 1918 he was Professor of English at Bethel College, Newton, Kansas, taking out one year, however, for graduate work in English at the University of Chicago, from which institution he received his Master’s degree. Since 1918 he has been an Instructor in English at the University of Illinois, devoting his spare time to study toward the doctor’s degree. He has published reviews in several journals and a short article in Modern Language Notes, but nothing of importance.