Background
Syle, Louis Du Pont was born on August 2, 1857 in Shanghai, China. Son of Edward William and Jane Mary Winter (Davis) Syle.
Syle, Louis Du Pont was born on August 2, 1857 in Shanghai, China. Son of Edward William and Jane Mary Winter (Davis) Syle.
Graduated from Yale, 1879, Master of Arts, 1888.
United States consul in Madeira. 1882-1884; assistant Professor of English, University of California, 1892-1902. Dramatic critic San Francisco Examiner, 1898-1900, San Francisco Call, 1900-1901.
Author: From Milton to Tennyson, 1894.
Four English Poems, 1896. Essays in Dramatic Criticism, 1898.
Plays: Angelica’s Choice (comedy). Lord Ogleby; The Chaplain’s Revenge.
Love and Law (from French of Sandeau and Regnier).
Francine’s Love Problem (from French of Dumas fils). Mistress Moneyton’s Prince (comedy—with Edward Elsner). In Southern El Dorado (dramatic sketch).
Villiers (romantic opera—music by North. Clifford Page).
Editor: Burke on Conciliation (critical edit). Scott’s Lady of the Lake.
DeFoe’s Plague Year.
Married Edith Wilkinson, June 17, 1882.