A Pound of Cure: A Story of Monte Carlo

viii, 200 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Henry Bishop (1847-1928) was a United States novelist. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1867. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature in 1918. The best-known of his novels and sketches are: Detmold (1879); The House of a Merchant Prince (1882); Choy Susan and Other Stories (1884); Fish and Men in the Maine Islands (1885); The Golden Justice (1887); The Brownstone Boy and Other Queer People (1888); A House Hunter in Europe (1893); Writing to Rosina (1894). Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces (1883) is a book of travel.