19 JULY 1946, Page 4

Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, whose death at Amherst, Massachusetts, is

just announced, had a double literary personality. He was known first and foremost as an assiduous, enthusiastic and not completely discriminating biographer of Woodrow Wilson. His What Wilson Did at Paris occupied one volume, Woodrow Wilson and the Peace Settlement another two, while Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters ran to six. At the same time, under the pseudonym " David Gray- son," he was the author of a number of volumes of pleasant essays. The first and best known, Adventures in Contentment, gave Justice Felix Frankfurter, of the Supreme Court, the opportunity for a neat mot. Someone asked him what he thought of one of Baker's Wilson books. "A most successful adventure in contentment," he replied.

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