known books on statistics and economics. He is a special writer for The Saturday Evening Post, The Country Gentleman, The New York Times, and other periodicals.

BACON, ALBION FELLOWS

A social reformer and an active propagandist for better housing conditions, Mrs. Bacon has been prominent in social service work for many years. She has founded many welfare societies, among them the Anti-Tuberculosis League and the Working Girls' Association. She is a lecturer and writer on tenement reform.

BACON, JOSEPHINE DASKAM

Mrs. Bacon is an author with many novels to her credit. She has the double gift of being able to charm young people with her delightful stories, as well as to cheer up their elders. She is a poet in addition to being a novelist and a shortstory writer.

BAGBY, ALBERT MORRIS

Mr. Bagby is a well-known musician of New York, who studied music many years in Berlin and in Weimar under the famous Franz Liszt. He is originator of a series of over two hundred performances for subscribers at which many famous musicians have played. He writes for the magazines and has produced a musical novel.

BALLIN, HUGO

Mr. Ballin was awarded a scholarship of the Art Students' League, and has studied in Rome and Florence. He has also been awarded a number of art prizes, including the Shaw Prize Fund, Thomas B. Clark Prize, Architectural

League Medal, medal from the Buenos Aires International Exposition, Hallgarten Prize, Isodor Gold Medal. His work has been reproduced in the Critic, Century, Kunst und Kunstlerwerke, International Studio, etc.

BARNES, JAMES

Author, former editor of Harper's Weekly and literary editor of the publishing firm of Appleton and Co. Mr. Barnes spent two years in South Africa as a war correspondent during the Boer War. Most of his books deal with the deeds of the American navy and are of historical value. He has also written of the English navy and the Boer War.

BARUCH, SIMON, M.D.

A prominent New York physician and specialist on chronic diseases, lecturer in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and a writer on medical topics. Dr. Baruch was born in Germany and began his career in this country as a Civil War surgeon in the army of General Lee. Since that time he has caused the world a great deal of trouble by being the first to discover and operate for that popular malady, appendicitis.

BELLAMY, WILLIAM

An author who has been gifted with the astonishing ability to write four separate volumes of charades, a feat which will certainly never be duplicated. Mr. Bellamy is a Bostonian.

BENNETT, ARNOLD

Arnold Bennett needs no introduction to the American reading public, for those of us who began with the first of

his "Five Town" novels have been busy keeping pace with him ever since. He is unquestionably one of the greatest living novelists.

BLANCHAN, NELIJE

Under this pen name Mrs. Frank N. Doubleday, the wife of the eminent publisher, is known to countless nature lovers through her books and articles on birds and gardening. One of Mrs. Doubleday's specialties has been the life of the American Indian, a subject on which she has written extensively.

BLAUVELT, MME. LILLIAN

A noted American prima donna and soprano. Her début in opera was made in Brussels after several years of study in New York and Paris and many concert tours. Since then she has been an annual visitor to the capitals of Europe and to America. She has received decorations and honors from England, Italy, Germany, France and Russia, and has sung before many of the European rulers.

BOND, CARRIE JACOBS

A composer who has published several books. She is the author of "Ten Songs," "The Path of Life" and "Stories in Verse."

BONSALL, REV. A. J.

The Rev. Mr. Bonsall is an eminent clergyman and pastor of the Sandusky Street Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. He has published a small book of delightful nonsense rhymes.

BOSHER, KATE LANGLEY

Mrs. Bosher is an author whose work is marked by optimism and good humor. "Mary Cary" is perhaps the best known of her novels. Her latest is "The Man in Lonely Land."

BRENT, THE RT. REV. C. B.

Bishop Brent has taken an active part in the great humanitarian interests of the day. He was president of the International Opium Congress and of the conference at The Hague. He has been a lecturer at Harvard, and since his ordination has been twice elected Bishop of Washington, but has declined that honor. He is the author of several books and is at present the Alexander Duff lecturer at Edinburgh, retaining the bishopric of the Philippines.

BRISBANE, ARTHUR

A brilliant journalist whose editorials, read daily by hundreds of thousands, have become a vital force in moulding public opinion all over America. He is the editor of The New York Evening Journal.

BROOKS, AMY

Author and illustrator. Miss Brooks is a writer of children's books. Since she first entered literary work in 1900, she has produced over thirty volumes. All of them are written for girl readers. Perhaps the most-noted is the Dorothy Dainty Series.

BURGESS, THORNTON WALDO

Mr. Burgess' quaint tales of rabbit and fox and bird delight children everywhere. Mr. Burgess was formerly

on the editorial staff of Phelps Publishing Company and Orange Judd Company. He was also for a number of years Associate Editor of "Good Housekeeping." He is the author of several children's stories, and is now a contributor of juveniles to the leading magazines.

BURNHAM, CLARA LOUISE

Mrs. Burnham is the daughter of a well-known composer. She is the author of many excellent stories and poems and has written the text of several of her father's cantatas. Her "Jewel" stories have enjoyed an immense vogue.

BURR, AMELIA JOSEPHINE

The author of two volumes of verse, "In Deep Places" and "The Roadside Fire." The lyric quality shown in Miss Burr's poetry is also in evidence in her fiction. She is the author of many short stories which have won for her the reputation of a mastery of romance.

BURRELL, REV. David J.

One of the leading preachers of the metropolitan pulpit. As minister of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church for the last quarter of a century he has exercised a powerful influence on the philanthropic and religious development of New York. For two years after his ordination Mr. Burrell served as missionary in Chicago. His sermons are published every week and many volumes have appeared from his pen.

BYNNER, WITTER

Mr. Bynner's poetry is familiar to everyone who keeps in touch with modern verse, for he is a leader in the movement