Foreign News: New Subject

Last week a sleek, brilliant citizen of the U. S. became a subject of His Britannic Majesty King George V. He is Thomas Stearns Eliot, relative of the late Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University. Poet and critic, he is the author of The Waste Land, a poem which won the Dial prize for 1922, and The Sacred Wood, a volume of critical works.

Mr. Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War,...

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