BRYUSOV, VALERY YAKOVLOVICH Russian poet, was born in Moscow Dec. 13, 1873, and died in the same town on Oct. 9, 1924. His early verses are decadent in style, but they brought him a certain notoriety. The influence of Bal mont is seen in his earlier work, and of Verhaeren in his poems of the town and in his revolt against social evils, e.g., The Stone mason. His later poems, however, are more scholarly and rheto rical in subject and style. He also wrote prose, his most inter esting work being the historical novel, The Flaming Angel (1909), and was a great student of Pushkin. After the Oct. revolution in 1917 he joined the Communist party. His poetical works in clude: Tertia Vigilia (19o1) ; Urbi et Orbi (1903) ; Stephanos