Untermeyer
LOUIS, an American author, born in New York, in 1885. He was educated at De Witt Clinton High School, New York, and at the age of 17 entered his father's business of jewelry manufacturing. Although being actively and successively engaged in this business, he became one of the most prominent humor poets in the United States. He was a contributing editor to the perator," an occasional lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and other colleges, and a member of the Socialist party. Besides contributing many criticisms and reviews to the "New Republic" "Yale Review," New York "Evening Post," etc., he translated a compilation of "Poems of Heinrich Heine" (1917); "Modern American Verse" (1919); and wrote "The Younger Quire" (1910); "First Love" (1911); "Challenge" (1914); and "Other Poets" (1916); "Three Times" (1917); "Including Horace" (1919); etc.