GUTHRIE, William Norman, American clergyman, educator and author: b. Dundee, Scotland, 4 May 1868. He was graduated at the University of the South 1889. (A.M., 1891). He became assistant professor of modern lan guages in the University of the South 1889-90; and professor of modern languages, Kenyon College, 1892-93; was ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry 1893; missionary in charge, Christ Church, Kennedy Heights, 1893-94; as sistant rector, Church of the Advent, Cincinnati, 1894-96 and lecturer on comparative literature, University of Cincinnati, 1898-1900. He was rector of the church of Resurrection, Fern Bank, Ohio, 1899-1903; Christ Church, Alameda, Cal., 1903-08 and professor of general literature and director University Extension Department, University of the South, 1908-10; rector Saint Mark's in the Bouwerie, New York, since 1910.
Director Cincinnati Conferences, Art and Literature 1900-03; professorial lecturer in. general literature, University of Chicago, 1909. Author 'Love Conquereth' (1890) ; 'Modern Poet Prophets' ; 'Essays Critical and Inter pretative' (1897-99) • 'To Kindle the Yule Log' (1899) ; 'Songs of American Destiny' (1900) ; 'The Old Hemlock' (1901); 'The Christ of the Ages in Words of Holy Writ' (1903) ; 'Orpheus To-day, Saint Francis of the Trees and Other Verse' (1907) ; 'The Vital Study of Literature' (1911); 'Beyond Disillu sion', a dramatic study of modern marriage; 'Uncle Sam and Old World Conquerors', a patriotic satire (1916) ; 'The Gospel of Osiris' (1916); 'Leaves of the Greater Bible' (1917). He was editor of the Forensic Quarterly 1909 '0; Dramatic Quarterly 1910-11, etc.