ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS ), American author, was born in Dunkirk, N.Y., on Jan. 26, 1871. He graduated at Hamilton college in 1891 and entered journalism. From 1891 to 190o he was engaged as a reporter and special writer for the New York Sun. He was managing editor of McClure's syndicate in 1900-01, advertising manager of McClure, Phillips and Com pany in 1901-02, and from 1903 to 1905 member of the edi torial staff of McClure's Magazine. In 1905 he contributed to Collier's Weekly a noteworthy series of articles exposing fraudu lent quack medicines, and in 1915-16, in the New York Tribune, he similarly exposed dishonourable practices in advertising.
Among his published writings are: The Mystery, with Stewart Edward White (1905) ; The Great American Fraud (1905) ; The Flying Death (1906) ; Average Jones 0910 ; The Secret of Lonesome Cove (1913) ; The Health Master (1913) ; The Clarion (1914) ; Little Miss Grouch (1915) ; The Unspeakable Perk (1916) ; Our Square and the People in It (1917) ; Common Cause (1918) ; Wanted, a Husband (1919) ; Success (1921) ; From a Bench in Our Square (1922) ; Siege (1924) ; and Revelry (1926) .