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Robins (ELIZABETH MRS)

ELIZABETH (MRS.

GEORGE RICHMOND PARKES), an American actress and writer, bor in Louisville, Ky. She was educated in Zanesville, Ohio, but the larger part of her life was spent in England. She attained success on the stage in the interpretation of Ibsen's plays. She was best known, however, as a novelist. Her books include "Below the Salt" (1896); "The Open Question" (1898); "The Magnetic North" (1904); "The Convert" (1907); "My Little Sister" 1912; "Way Stations" (1913). She lectured widely on the woman suffrage movement.

ROBINS ROBINSON and from 1892 to 1919 he was associate professor and professor of history at Columbia University. From 1919 he acted as organizer and lecturer of the New School for Social Research. He was the editor of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and an associate editor of the "American Historical Review." His historical writings include "Readings in European History" (1904-5); "The Development of Modern Europe" (1907); "The New History" (1911); and "Mediæval and Modern Times" (1915).