MATTHEWS (.1.MiF.$) 13n.txnlia (1552-). An Amerienn author and educator, barn in New Orleans. Ile graduated from Columbia College in 1871 awl from the Columbia Law Sehool in 1573. In 1892 he was made a professor in Co lumbia, and soon won eminence in America as a eritie of dramatie literature. Ili; writings con sist mainly of essays on the theatre, of comedies. :and of short stories. yet .1noTicactiscas /Id Brit I. eiSUIR (18921 might be classified as a linguistic study. As their titles imply. Aspects of Fiction. (1S96 revised in 1902) and In lust,•odurtion to the's' (ply of .1 merican 1,itern t (159)i1 enter upon other fields. II is Fifth,. r's Son (1595), a novel. deals with a NPW York broker's influence on his son. Sketches of New York life, called l'icoirttes of thochattan, appeared in 1894: stud ies in Loral color appeared in 159q. and I nt 7'o-ll, fIrrorr in 19110. Matthews's
matic crilieisua, which is French in tone. includes Par nett bruin', ists of the Vito I,, nth Century (IN'41: revised in 1'91 and 1901) and studies of tire stay, (15941. to millet, may be added The rhea f r. s of Pnris (1550) II is cOMell tib are literary rather than pra et Wally dramatic, include Morn. ry's Lori I544).
ha the rest ;bide Litni d ( and The De rision of t hi Court (1593). More recent works are 7'I0• let ion the Word : 7'tir Ms torieul Vfa, 1 nit,/ Other Essays 119011 Parts of Xpeeeh, on English ( 19011 ; Philos ophy of the Short •Story and• in eol labora t with LIM [PRIV 111H1011, lett:WS and .tetresses of the United Slates and Great Britai (1900). A uniform edition of llattliews's critics works was begun in 1903.