Halsey.
Bk. Buyer, 22 ('21): 15 (portrait).
Bookm. 31 ('10): 117.
Forum, 39 ('08): 377.
Ind. 69 ('10): 1085 (portrait).
Internat. Q. 4 ('01): 289.
Outlook, 78 ('04): 879 (portrait); 102 ('12): 645 (portrait), 649;
117 ('17): 640. (Lyman Abbott.)
Putnam's, 1 ('07): 708 (portrait).
Spec. 106 ('11): 969; 114 ('15): 686.
+H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken+--critic, man of letters.
Born at Baltimore, Maryland, 1880, of German ancestry. Graduate of
Baltimore Polytechnic, 1896. On the Baltimore _Herald_, 1903-5, and
_Baltimore Sun_, 1906-17. Became literary critic for _The Smart Set_,
1908, and (with George Jean Nathan), editor, 1914--. War
correspondent in Germany and Russia, 1917. Much interested in music.