Bookm. 42 ('15): 461.
Ind. 88 ('16): 312 (portrait).
Lit. Digest, 52 ('16): 241.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.
+Francis (O'Byrne) Hackett+--critic.
Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1883. Son of a physician. Educated at
Clongowes Wood College, Kildare. Came to America in 1900. Began as office
boy and gradually worked his way up as critic and editorial writer.
Connected with the _Chicago Evening Post_, 1906-11. Associate editor of
the _New Republic_, 1914-22.