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EMILE CAMMAERTS (1878-), Belgian poet, was born at Brussels March 16 1878. In 1908 he settled in England. His earlier works include four volumes of translations of Ruskin into French, and Les Bellini, an essay in art criticism; and he has also written two plays, Les Deux Bossus (1917) and La Veillee de Noel (1917). It is, however, by the poems written during the World War that M. Cammaerts attained his widest popularity. These include Belgian Poems (1915); New Belgian Poems (1917); and Messines and other Poems (1918). He also produced Through the Iron Bars (1917), an account of the sufferings of Belgium during the World War.

M. Cammaerts married Tita Brand, a daughter of the singer Madame Marie Brema. Madame Brand-Cammaerts became well known during the World War for her recitations of her husband's patriotic poems. A pres Anvers, set to music by Sir Edward Elgar under the name of Carillon, was one of the great popular successes during the first two years of the World War.