JOHN JAY CHAPMAN AND HIS LETTERS

by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.

John Jay Chapman was one of America's great and unique men, and this book will be a revelation to you unless you are already familiar with his story or legend. His views on men, literature and institutions (mainly Harvard) make exhilarating reading. Here was no vox populi, but only the sincere and passionate voice of John Jay Chapman. You may recall him as the father of Victor Chapman the first of American aces to be killed in the Lafayette Escadrille.