dealing with life in the Kentucky mountains have been very popular. Author of "A Cumberland Vendetta," "The Kentuckians," "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," "The Heart of the Hills," etc.

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN. Born in Massachusetts in 1862. A writer for magazines whose poems, short stories, etc., contain an appreciative realism of simple life and character. Author of "Shoulders of Atlas," "Winning Lady," "The Jamesons and People of our Neighborhood," and many others. ALICE FRENCH ("Octave Thanet"). Born in Massachusetts in 1850; has resided chiefly in the West. A story-writer and novelist. Author of "Knitters in the Sun," "Otto, the Knight," "Stories of a Western Town," "A Book of True Lovers," "The Heart of Toil," "A Slave to Duty," etc. ZONA GALE. Born in Wisconsin in 1874. Essayist and writer for magazines whose stories are permeated with a beautiful idealism of simple life and humble people. Author of "The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre," "Friendship Village," "Friendship Village Love Stories," etc. HAMLIN GARLAND. Born in Wisconsin, 1860. Story-writer, novelist, and dramatist. Author of "Prairie Folks," "Wayside Courtships," "The Eagle's Heart," "The Captain of the Gray, Horse Troop," "The Longê Trail," etc. "man travelfed RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1844-1909). Born in New Jersey. Poet, editor, and social reformer. Editor of The Century Magazine. Author of "The New Day," "The Celestial Passion," "Lyrics," "Five Books of Songs," "In Palestine," etc.

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ELLEN A. GLASGOW. Born in Virginia in 1874. A novelist and poet. Author of "The Descendant," "Phases of an Inferior Planet," "The Voice of the People," "The Freeman, and Other Poems," "The Deliverance," "The Wheel of Life," etc.

MAUD WILDER GOODWIN. Born in New York, 1856. Author of historical romances, among which may be mentioned "The Colonial Cavalier " and "Life of Dolly Madison."

ROBERT GRANT. Born in Boston, 1852. Author of many novels, among which may be mentioned "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels," "An Average Man," and "The Reflections of a Married Man."

Anna KATHERINE GREEN (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). Born in New York, 1846. Author of many exciting detective stories. "The Leavenworth Case," "That Affair Next Door," "The Filigree Ball," and "The Millionaire Baby" are among the most popular of her works.

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY. Born in Boston, 1861. Writer of poems which show true literary instinct and expression. Author of "The White Sail and

Other Poems," "England and Yesterday," "The Martyr's Idyl and
Shorter Poems," etc., and editor of "Matthew Arnold" in small Riverside
Literature series, Dr. T. W. Parsons' translation of Dante's "Divina
Commedia," etc.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-1909). Born in Massachusetts. Unitarian clergyman, historian, poet, editor, and novelist; but as active in philanthropy as in literature. Among his many writings are to be noted "The Man Without a Country," "In His Name," "Ten Times One is Ten," "Philip Nolan's Friends," "For Fifty Years," a collection of poems, etc. (See text.)

GAIL HAMILTON. See Mary A. Dodge.

HENRY HARLAND ("Sidney Luska") (1861-1905). Born in St. Petersburg, Russia. A novelist of New York City. Author of "The Cardinal's Snuff Box," "My Friend Prospero," "The Land of Love," and "The Lady Paramount."

MARION HARLAND. See Mary V. Terhune.

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (1848-1908). Born in Georgia. An editor of The Atlanta Constitution, distinguished especially for his studies in negro folklore. Author of "Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings," "Nights with Uncle Remus," "Uncle Remus and his Friends," "Little Mr. Thimblefinger," "Balaam and his Master," "Stories of Georgia," "Chronicles of Aunt Minerva," etc.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS (1835-1909). Born in Connecticut. For thirteen years superintendent of the St. Louis public schools; afterwards lecturer of the Concord School of Philosophy; for many years United States Commissioner of Education. Eminent as an educator and philosopher. Author of "Introduction to the Study of Philosophy," "The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia," "Psychologic Foundation of Education," etc. FRANCIS BRET HARTE (1839-1903). A native of New York, but spent a considerable part of his life in California. An editor, poet, and novelist. Author of some forty different works, among which are "Luck of Roaring Camp," "Poems," "Tales of the Argonauts," "Gabriel Conroy,” “Tales of Trail and Town,” “Under the Redwoods,” etc. (See text.) JULIAN HAWTHORNE (1846-1914). A native of Boston. Son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; a journalist and novelist who inherited much of his father's originality. Author of "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife," "Bressant," "Garth," "Beatrix Randolph," "Fortune's Fool," "Archibald Malmaison," ‚” “One of Those Coincidences, and Other Stories,” etc. JOHN HAY (1838-1905). Born in Indiana. Private secretary of President Lincoln, ambassador to England, and Secretary of State. Author of "Castilian Days," "Pike County Ballads," "Abraham Lincoln," "Poems," etc.

HENRY HAYES. See Ellen O. Kirk.

LAFCADIO HEARN (1850-1904). A resident first of New Orleans, then of New York, and lastly of Japan. The following titles indicate the nature of his works: "Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, ," "Some Chinese Ghosts," "Youma, the Story of a West Indian Slave," "Out of the East," and "Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life," etc.

O. HENRY. See Sidney Porter.

ROBERT HERRICK. Born in Massachusetts, 1868. University professor and novelist. Author of "The Man who Wins," "Literary Love Letters, and Other Stories," "The Common Lot," "One Woman's Life," etc. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON (1823-1911). Essayist and littérateur of Cambridge. A prominent abolitionist before the Civil War, and since then active advocate of woman's suffrage. Among varied and numerous works are "Atlantic Essays," "Woman and her Wishes,' ," "Short Studies of American Authors," "Common Sense about Women," "Life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," "Larger History of the United States," "The Afternoon Landscape" (a collection of poems), and "Cheerful Yesterdays."

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. See Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie. MARIETTA HOLLEY. Born in New York, 1850. Humorous writer of poems, essays, and stories. Her writings include "My Wayward Partner," "Sweet Cicely," "Poems," "Samantha at Saratoga," "Samantha in Europe," and numerous other Samantha stories.

BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD (1847-1898) (Frau Von Teuffel). Born in Maine, lived in Germany after 1875. Among her novels are "Aunt Serena," "Guenn," and "The Open Door."

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910). A writer of Boston, prominent in philanthropic movements and in the movement for the enfranchisement of women. Her "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is her finest poem. Other works are "Passion Flowers,” “Later Lyrics,” “Sex and Education,” “Modern Society," etc.

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS. Born in Ohio in 1837. He began his literary career as a writer of verse. Consul to Venice and later editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Among his many volumes of realistic fiction may be mentioned "The Undiscovered Country," "A Modern Instance,” “The Rise of Silas Lapham," "A Traveller from Altruria," to which may be added a series of delightful farces, "The Mouse Trap," "The Parlor Car," etc. (See text.) HELEN HUNT. See Helen Fiske Jackson.

HELEN FISKE JACKSON ("Helen Hunt") (1831-1885). Born in Massachusetts; resided the latter part of her life in Colorado. A prose-writer and poet of unusual gifts. Author of "A Century of Dishonor," "Sonnets and Lyrics," "Ramona," one of our best-known novels, and of many other works.

Henry James (1843–1916). A native of New York; resided in London since 1869. His numerous novels are written in a style of overdone refinement. Worthy of mention are "The Portrait of a Lady," "Daisy Miller,” “The Bostonians," "A London Wife," "The Sacred Fount," etc. (See text.) SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1848–1909). Born in Maine. Her careful studies of rural New England life and character have justly made her popular. Author of “Old Friends and New,” “A Country Doctor," "The King of Folly Island, and Other People," "The Country of the Pointed Firs," etc.

MARY JOHNSTON. Born in Virginia in 1870. Well-known novelist and lecturer on woman's suffrage. Author of "Prisoners of Hope," "To Have and to Hold," "Audrey," "Sir Mortimer," "The Long Roll," "Cease Firing," "Hagar," etc.

RICHARD MALCOM JOHNSTON (1822-1898). A Baltimore educator and a writer of humor and originality. Among varied works may be mentioned "Dukesborough Tales," "Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk," "Studies, Literary and Social," "Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes," "Widow Guthrie, a Novel," and "Mr. Fortner's Marital Claims." HELEN KELLER. Born in Alabama, 1880. Deaf and dumb since the age of 17 months. Lecturer and author. Author of "The Story of my Life," "Optimism" (an essay), "Out of the Dark," and several others.

CHARLES KING. Born in New York in 1844. A brigadier-general in the war against Spain. A resident for many years of Wisconsin. Author of more than thirty volumes, principally military novels, which have been extensively read. Among his publications are "Famous and Decisive Battles,” "Between the Lines," "Under Fire," "The General's Double," "A War Time Wooing," "Kitty's Conquest," etc.

GRACE ELIZABETH KING. Born in New Orleans in 1852. Novelist and historical writer. Author of "Monsieur Motte," "New Orleans, the Place and the People," "De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida," "History of Louisiana," "Stories from History of Louisiana," and several others. ELLEN OLNEY KIRK ("Henry Hayes"). Born in Connecticut, 1842. Novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Author of "A Midsummer Madness,” "The Story of Margaret Kent," "Dorothy Deane," "Marcia,” etc. SIDNEY LANIER (1842-1881). A native of Georgia. A poet, musician, and novelist. A poet of original genius, who did not live to realize all his possibilities. Author of "Poems," "Tiger Lilies" (a novel), "The Science of English Verse," "The English Novel and its Development," etc. (See text.) LUCY LARCOM (1824-1893). A native of Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell mills. She afterwards became popular as a writer both of prose and verse. Among her works are "Childhood Songs,"

"Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories," "The Unseen Friend," "A New England Girlhood," which is autobiographic, etc.

GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP (1851-1898). Born at Oahu, Hawaii. A littérateur of New York City. Author of "Dreams and Days" (verse), “An Echo of Passion" and other works of fiction, "A Study of Hawthorne," "Spanish Vistas,"

etc.

EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887). A native of New York; a gifted writer of Jewish descent. Among her writings are “Alide, an Episode of Goethe's Life," 'Admetus, and Other Poems," "Songs of a Semite," "Poems and Ballads translated from Heine."

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (1824-1903). A native of Philadelphia, a poet and educator, and authority in gypsy lore. Author of "Hans Breitmann's Ballads,” “English Gypsies," "Practical Education," "Legends of Florence,' 'Algonquin Legends," "Anglo-Romany Songs," etc.

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FRANCES LITTLE. See Fannie C. Macaulay.

DAVID ROSS LOCKE. ("Petroleum V. Nasby ") (1833-1888). A native of New York. A widely known political satirist. Author of "Ekkoes from Kentucky," "Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby,” “Nasby in Exile,” etc. HENRY CABOT LODGE. Born in Boston, 1850. Senator, lecturer, editor, and author of many historical and biographical works. Representative of him are his "Short History of the English Colonies in America," "Life of Washington," "Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Essays in Literature and Politics," "Story of the Revolution," and "A Frontier Town and Other Essays."

JACK LONDON. Born in California in 1876. Journalist, lecturer, novelist, socialist, and writer on sociological subjects. An extensive traveler, and war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War. Author of "The God of his Fathers," "The People of the Abyss," "The Call of the Wild," "John Barleycorn," and many other publications.

CHARLES F. LUMMIS. Born in Massachusetts, 1859. Explorer and author. Among numerous works may be mentioned "Birch Bark Poems,” “A Tramp Across the Continent," "The Man Who Married the Moon, and Other Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories," etc.

SIDNEY LUSKA. See Henry Harland.

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE. Born in New York in 1846. An essayist and journalist, associate editor of The Outlook. Author of "Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas," "My Study Fire," "Short Studies in Literature," "Nature and Culture," "Books and Culture," "Work and Culture," "The Life of the Spirit," "Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man,” etc. FANNIE CALDWELL MACAULAY ("Frances Little"). Born in Kentucky, 1863. Author of works of fiction portraying her experiences in Japan, the best