Lindsay
Lindsay names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Lindsay NICHOLAS VACHEL, an he Springpoet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NICHOLAS VACHEL, an he Springpoet, born in Springfield, Ill., at Hiram He graduated from the Spring- High School, and studied at Hiram te of Chiand at the Art Institute of Chi- He spent several years in lecin the Y. M. C. A. and for the Saloon League. He made several tours throughout the United States, distributing his own verses and reciting them. In 1920 he visited England, where he was received with great enthusiasm. His works include "A Handy Guide for Beggars" (1916); "General William Booth Enters Heaven, and Other Poems" (1913); ; "The Congo and Other Poems" (1914); "The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems" (1917). He wrote under the name of Vachel Lindsay. LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR, an American jurist and social worker, born in Jackson, Tenn., in 1869. He was educated in the public schools and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1894. After practicing for several years in Denver, Colo., he was elected judge of the Juvenile Court. His administration at that court and his advocacy of improved methods in dealing with juvenile offenders, won wide attention and gave him international authority as to features of juvenile delinquency. Although strongly opposed, he was successively re-elected. He was the author of the Colorado Juvenile Court Law and also was the author of many laws passed by the Colorado Legislature. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Colorado in 1906. He lectured widely 1851. on children's problems and was the author of "Problems of the Children"; "The Beast and the Jungle"; "The Rule of Plutocracy in Colorado." 'During the World War he was engaged in war work, both in the United States and abroad.
Lindsay or LYNDSAY, SIR the University
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or LYNDSAY, SIR the University , a Scotch poet; born about the 09 became page 1490. He studied in the University hen an infant. Andrews, and in 1509 became page Dreme," and in to James V., then an infant. ted his "Comhe produced his " Dreme, " and in following year presented his " Com- 530 he was int-arms, and to the king. In 1530 he was into Charles V., lyon king-at-arms, and he married sent on a mission to Charles V., drama return from which he married. bree Rotatis," afterward published a drama newer to the a " Satyre of the Three Estatis, " History and in 1536 by his " Answer to the m" in 1538. Flyting "; and by the " History and rchie," was of Squire Meldrum " in 1538. than two work, " The Monarchie, " was ost popular in 1553. For more than two ical attacks Lindsay was the most popular paved the Scotland. His satirical attacks He died in clergy in some degree paved the the Reformation, He died in CEFL, an
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Vachel Lindsay in 1921 at his peak, fresh from a triumphant English tour; ten years later, broke and exhausted by the reciting circuit, he killed himself in Springfield in December 1931 by drinking Lysol. His stock has fallen furthest of the three men here: "The Congo," the poem that made him famous, is now read chiefly as an object lesson in racial caricature and is rarely performed. Benjamin Barr Lindsey, praised in 1921 as an unassailable juvenile-court judge, was ousted from the Denver bench in 1927 amid a campaign-funds ruling and disbarred, and his book advocating "companionate marriage" made him a national scandal; he rebuilt a career as a Los Angeles judge and died in 1943. Only Sir David Lindsay's entry still stands, and his "Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis" got an afterlife the 1921 writer could not have guessed, revived at the 1948 Edinburgh Festival by Tyrone Guthrie and staged regularly since.
Written for this edition, 2026.