Mackaye
PERCY, dramatist and poet; born in 1875 in New York, graduated from Harvard in 1897, and became a student at Leipsic, after traveling in Europe, he taught privately in New York and from 1904 has been engaged in dramatic work. His works include "The Canterbury Pilgrims," a comedy (1903); "A Modern Rendering into Prose of Chaucer's Tales" (1904); "Fenris the Wolf," a tragedy (1905); "Jeanne d'Arc," a tragedy (1906); "Sappho and Phaon" (1907) "The Scare- ; "The Scarecrow: sion form of government adopted in 1913. Pop. (1910) 42,694; (1920) 46,781.