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to free American poetry from the shackles of conventionality and formalism. For several years a successful editor in New York, Mr. Bynner is now established at his home in Vermont where he writes in bucolic ease and comfort.

CABELL, JAMES BRANCH

Mr. Cabell is a novelist of tried ability. His work reflects the splendor of the aristocratic days of the past. He has written "The Soul of Melisande," "The Cords of Vanity," "The Eagle's Shadow" and other novels.

CAPPER, ARTHUR

Governor of Kansas. backward in proclaiming the virtues of their great state. They should be proud of their present governor, who is a home grown product. Governor Capper began his career in the humble capacity of compositor on a Topeka newspaper. In eight years he owned the paper, and soon began acquiring seven other journals of which he is proprietor at present. He has now modestly acquired the highest office in the state.

The citizens of Kansas are never

CARLE, RICHARD

One of the chief fun makers in America, Richard Carle is known not only to Broadway audiences, but to almost any American town that is big enough to boast an Opera House. He has the gift of making an audience laugh by merely looking at it. Mr. Carle has written or adapted most of the plays in which he has appeared.

CARNEGIE, ANDREW

To give a biography of Mr. Carnegie is as unnecessary as to give a biography of Napoleon, for he has scattered public

beneficences and libraries prodigally over the land. The great steel-maker, financial captain, and philanthropist has succeeded in every undertaking except that of bringing peace to Europe by his palace at The Hague. He offers the amazing spectacle of a man who has acquired so much wealth that he cannot give all of it away.

CASTLE, MRS. VERNON

Mrs. Castle is probably, in the estimation of most people to-day, a more famous dancer than Isadora Duncan or Pavlowa. She has, with her husband, turned the dance from a rather dull pastime into a mad whirl into which everyone, young and old, has joined. Yet she is to-day still a girl, a charming hostess and a devoted home-keeper.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT W.

Few novelists are better known in America than Mr. Chambers. His name has stared at us from the covers of magazines and novels at every bookstore for years. Mr. Chambers started in as an art student in Paris and had the honor of exhibiting in the salon. Later he became an illustrator, and then plunged headlong into fiction.

CHEATHAM, KITTIE

By her holiday recitals, Miss Cheatham has popularised a good share of the songs best loved by children to-day, and at story telling she is an artist to her finger tips. Thousands of children look forward every year to listening to her ballads and stories.

CHRISTY, HOWARD CHANDLER

The Gibson Girl, the Christy Girl, the Underwood Girl, the Harrison Fisher Girl, and the Stanlaws Girl, are the

most famous of all the pretty girls today, and of these none is more filled with splendid outdoor spirit and clean, longlimbed grace than the Christy Girl. As illustrator also, Mr. Christy is of great importance.

CLOWRY, ROBERT C.

Covering a period of over half a century Col. Clowry served the Western Union Telegraph Company in every capacity from office boy to president, and has probably done more than any other one man in making the telegraph business what it is in America today.

COBB, THE REV. HENRY EVERTSON

Minister of the West End Collegiate Church of New York. A trustee of Vassar and Rutgers college and the Red Cross hospital, he is associated with many philanthropic and academic institutions. Mr. Cobb is also the author of several books, including "Victories of Youth" and "The Ships of Tarshish."

COLL, JOSEPH CLEMENT

Pen and ink is one of the most difficult as well as one of the most subtle of mediums for an artist, and of that medium Mr. Coll is a master. His illustrations to Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" marvelously added to the mystery and power of that book; his pictures for Doyle's "Sir Nigel" had all the swing of the text, and his illustrations of characters from Dickens have a wonderfully true Dickens flavor. Besides his book illustrations, much of Mr. Coll's work has been featured in the Associated Sunday Magazines.

CRANE, DR. FRANK

Dr. Crane is best known to the public at the present time through his daily editorials appearing in the New York Globe and other papers. He is an optimistic and cheerful writer with the ability to back up his optimism with common sense and an unprejudiced attitude. He has accomplished the feat of maintaining a refreshingly novel viewpoint, an incredibly difficult task in daily journalism.

CUTTING, MARY STEWART

Mrs. Cutting has been constantly engaged in authorship for over twenty years. She has written many short stories and serial novels for the magazines. Among the novels that she has published are "The Wayfarers," "The Unforeseen," while the last book from her pen was "Refractory Husbands."

DAVIS, DR. KATHARINE BEMENT

As Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for the city of New York, Dr. Davis holds one of the most important posts ever given to a woman. Although nominally her work is only municipal in its scope it has attracted attention throughout the whole country, partly because of the novelty of having a woman in control of criminal institutions, but primarily through her own personality and the genius she has shown in handling difficult and dangerous situations that have arisen in the course of her work.

DE KOVEN, REGINALD

Mr. de Koven is known principally through the melodies he has composed which have through the years become familiar to everyone. He is at the same time a musical

editor and the conductor of an orchestra. His songs appeared first in "Robin Hood" and other famous comic operas. Some of them, like the ever popular "O Promise Me" we can never forget.

DELAND, MARGARET

Mrs. Deland is one of the greatest novelists in America. She is one of the few writers we possess whose work shows a sympathetic understanding of the human heart and yet is not weakened by a single trace of sentimentality. "The Awakening of Helena Richie" and "The Iron Woman" are perhaps the greatest of her novels, though her readers have found an even greater charm in the delightful characters in "Dr. Lavander's People." Her novels have also been successfully dramatised for the stage.

DE WOLF, ELSIE

Miss De Wolf is an artist whose work has taken the form of interior decorating. The novelty of her designs and her exquisite taste are in evidence in many of the most famous country houses and clubs in this country. She is also a philanthropist who has attempted to solve difficult problems by helping the poor to help themselves.

DICKINSON, CHARLES MONROE

Mr. Dickinson is a diplomat who was a very successful journalist earlier in his career. It was on his suggestion and initiative that the various news organizations of the country were combined to form the great organization called the Associated Press. He has been U. S. Consul General to Turkey. In Bulgaria as Diplomatic Agent of the United States he succeeded in forcing the amiable

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