FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD, JR.

Aiding and completing the work of his father, the celebrated Shakespearean scholar, Mr. Furness has built up a solid reputation for himself among students of Shakespeare. He began to assist his father in the great work of editing and preparing the "Variorum" edition of Shakespeare in 1901. Since then he has edited several of the historical plays and has written extensively on the subject.

GAGE, LYMAN J.

Mr. Gage is a prominent financier and former Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinets of McKinley and Roosevelt. He started in work at the age of seventeen as an office-boy. He became book-keeper, cashier, and then president of the First National Bank of Chicago in 1891. For four years he was president of the U. S. Trust Co. and he has been three times president of the American Bankers' Association. Mr. Gage has now retired and lives in San Diego, California.

GALSWORTHY, JOHN

The author of "The Dark Flower," "The Patrician," "Fraternity" and many other novels, ranks with Bennett, Wells, Hardy and Conrad as one of the major novelists of England. His work is remarkable for the purity and beauty of his style. He is also a dramatist and has written several remarkable plays, of which "The Pigeon" and "Strife" are perhaps the best known in this country.

GARIS, HOWARD ROGER

An author and journalist, Mr. Garis is a special writer for the newspapers. He has produced a tremendous number of children's books, between three and five a year for sev

eral years. He is the author of "With Force of Arms," "The Isle of Black Fire" and a host of juveniles which celebrate the interminable adventures of Dick Hamilton, Uncle Wiggily and other favorites.

GARLAND, HAMLIN

Hamlin Garland, novelist and dramatist, is a product of the Middle West. He was one of the first writers to reveal the romance and drama of that great region where he has lived all his life, with the exception of a few years in Boston. Mr. Garland is undoubtedly one of the foremost novelists of the United States. As an additional claim to fame he was the founder and first president of the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago.

GARLAND, THE RT. REV. THOMAS J.

Bishop Garland has been the editor of a prominent religious paper for two years, and later the secretary of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. He was consecrated Bishop of that State four years ago.

GARRISON, THEODOSIA.

A contributor of many poems and stories to prominent magazines. She is the author of two books of verse which have won for her an enduring reputation, "The Joy of Life" and "The Earth Cry."

GARY, ELBERT H.

As all the world knows Judge Gary is the chairman and chief executive officer of that great corporation, the United States Steel Co. For twenty-five years he practised law in Chicago and was general counsel to several railways and

manufacturing concerns. He organized the Federal Steel Co. and retired from law to become its president, and later aided in the formation of the corporation of which he is at present the head.

GAYNOR, JESSIE L.

Mrs. Gaynor is a composer. After several years of study she taught music in conservatories and music schools of Chicago and St. Louis. She is the author of "Songs of Child World" and "Elements of Musical Composition," in addition to many songs and operettas for children.

GERE, FLORENCE PARR

After an extensive musical training abroad Mrs. Gere, who is one of the younger American composers, has met with much success and her songs are being sung by well-known opera and concert singers. She is the author of operatic and orchestral music, which works are spontaneous with originality and charm. Mrs. Gere writes the lyrics for her own songs, among her best-known numbers being "My Song," "My Garden," and "As a Flower Turns to the Sun." Among her compositions for piano are "An Inspiration," "Three Silhouettes," "Romanza," and "Legend," and a work for chorus and orchestra entitled "Mother Earth," which Mrs. Gere has just completed.

GIBBONS, CARDINAL

Cardinal Gibbons is one of the most distinguished leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Shortly after he was ordained he became the private secretary to Archbishop Spaulding. In 1886 he was nominated Cardinal and was invested with the princely insignata.

Cardinal Gibbons is a most eloquent preacher and the author of several works.

GIBSON, CHARLES DANA

Mr. Gibson is the dean of all American illustrators; the first to make the "typical American girl" famous by his charming pictures of her. He is still probably the foremost depicter of that charming lady. Not merely with pretty girls, however, but with delightfully humorous series, and faithful character studies of Average People-as seen at the theatre, in the subway and the car-Mr. Gibson is at the head of his profession. No picture is more often seen on the American walls than the famous sketch of Mr. Gibson which represents a chess game interrupted by Dan Cupid.

GILDERSLEEVE, Dr. B. L.

Since 1876 professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Gildersleeve is one of the foremost classical scholars in the country. His early training was gained in Princeton, and at the universities of Bonn and Göttingen in Germany. He has received honorary degrees from most of the prominent universities in America, and also from Cambridge and Oxford.

GLASGOW, ELLEN

Ellen Glasgow is a distinguished novelist who was born in Richmond, Virginia, and who still lives there. She is the author of "The Descendant," "The Romance of a Plain Man," and other novels, and has published several volumes of verse. Her last novel, "The Miller of Old Church," appeared in 1911.

GOETHALS, GENERAL GEORGE W.

General Goethals belongs to that small company of great men whose services to civilisation are so important that they can never be forgotten. In the eyes of the world he represents personally the greatest engineering achievement of all time, for the successful and timely completion of the Panama Canal is undoubtedly due to his mastery of the problems which it created.

GOLDBERG, R. L.

To anyone living within the range of the New York newspapers it is hardly necessary to state that R. L. Goldberg is a cartoonist. The question, "Have you seen Goldberg in the Mail?" has started more conversations among Gothamites than the state of the weather. His cartoons are slanderous caricatures on the human race, but for some reason his victims love him for it. Mr. Goldberg publicly professes to be an authority on pugilism.

GOLDWATER, DR. SIGMUND S.

Hospital administrator and advisory expert to many hospitals. Dr. Goldwater has been Commissioner of Health for the City of New York and is considered one of the foremost authorities on questions of public hygiene in the United States. He is a municipal expert in the construction and administration of hospitals and the author of many pamphlets on the subject.

GREENE, GENERAL FRANCIS V.

General Greene, Major General of U. S. Volunteers, graduated from West Point in 1870. During his successful military career in the service of the country he has held