SMITH, C (HARLES) ALPHONSO, an American educator and writer, born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1864. He was educated at Davidson College and at Johns Hopkins University, holding also honorary degrees from the University of Tennessee, University of North Carolina, and the University of Cincinnati. From 1890 to 1893 he was instructor of English at Johns Hopkins University; from. 1893 to 1902 professor of English language and literature at the Louisiana State Univer sity; from 1902 to 1907 professor of Eng lish language; from 1907 to 1909 head of the English Department and dean of the graduate department at the Univer sity of North Carolina; from 1909 to 1917 Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia; and from 1917 on head of the Department of English at the United States Naval Academy. At various times he was a lecturer on Eng lish language and literature at the Uni versity of California, University of Kan sas, etc. From 1910 to 1911 he was
Roosevelt professor of American history and institutions at the University of Ber lin. He was the founder of the Virginia Folk Lore Society (1913). Besides con tributing to periodicals, he was associate editor of "World's Orators" (1901), and of the "Library of Southern Literature," and wrote: "Repetition and Parallelism in English Verse" (1894) ; "Old English Grammar and Exercise Book" (1896) ; "Elementary English Grammar" (1903) ; "Studies in English Syntax" (1906) ; "Die Amerikanische Literatur" (1911); "Se lections from Huxley" (1911) ; "The American Short Story" (1912) ; "Peri cles" (1913) ; "What Can Literature Do for Me?" (1913) ; "O. Henry, Biography" (1916) ; "Short Stories Old and New" (1916) ; "Keynote Studies in Keynote Books of the Bible" (1919) ; "New Words Self-Defined" (1919).