system of providing the city's poor with sterilized milk which has undoubtedly saved the lives of thousands of children. He has also maintained a system of lodging houses in the city, and has established soup kitchens and a health bureau in Jerusalem to relieve the suffering in Palestine.

STRAUS, OSCAR S.

Mr. Straus is a brother of Nathan Straus, and is a prominent diplomat. His first appointment sent him to Turkey and in 1909 he became ambassador to that country. He is a member of the permanent committee on arbitration at The Hague. Under President Roosevelt he was the Commissioner of Labor. He is the author of "The American Spirit" and six other works of similar nature.

STREET, JULIAN

Mr. Street is an author, and a former reporter and dramatic editor of The Evening Mail of New York. He is a contributor to the magazines and the author of novels and humorous tales of travel, like his "Ship Bored," etc. Mr. Street is the author of "The Gold Fish," a book which created a sensation when it appeared in 1912.

SUNDAY, BILLY

Mr. Sunday, as everyone knows, is an evangelist with a remarkable gift for oratory and a power over his audiences that has not been equalled since the days of Dwight L. Moody. Formerly a baseball player, Mr. Sunday has preached for over ten years, though it has only been in this last year that his campaigns have attracted universal attention. He is an evangelist of a new type, and although

many disapprove of his freedom of speech in the pulpit, the masses are the final judge and they come to him in thousands.

TAPPER, BERTHA J.

Bertha J. Tapper is Mrs. Thomas J. Tapper in private life, and like her husband she is a musician. Mrs. Tapper has studied in Leipzig and in Vienna under Leschetizky. She has taught in music schools in Boston and New York, and is the author of many songs and compositions for the piano.

TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON

An author and prominent in journalism in New York. Mr. Terhune has travelled on horseback through Syria and Egypt investigating leper settlements, and has lived for a year among the Bedouins of the desert. He is the author of several novels, the latest of which, "Dad," appeared last year. With his mother-Marion Harland-Mr. Terhune wrote "Dr. Dale, A Story Without a Moral," being the first instance on record of a mother and son writing a novel in collaboration,

TERHUNE, ANICE

The children's verse and children's music of Mrs. Terhune, as well as her more serious music for grown-ups, has a standard position and is known to every American student of music to-day. Mrs. Terhune is the wife of Albert Payson Terhune.

THURSBY, EMMA CECELIA

A prominent singer who made her début at the time of the Centennial Exposition. She refused many fine offers to sing in grand opera and remained for many years a

leading dramatic soprano in oratorios. At present she lives in New York and is in great demand for coaching operatic singers. Miss Thursby was the first teacher of Geraldine Farrar and has had many other noted pupils.

TIFFANY, LOUIS COMFORT

Mr. Tiffany is an artist and the son of Charles Tiffany, the famous jeweler. He is a painter largely engaged in decoration, but he is perhaps best known throughout the artistic world for his discovery of new formulas for making decorative glass, such as the beautiful Tiffany Favrile glass.

TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBUR

To almost anyone who has followed the contemporary magazines, Juliet Wilbur Tompkins is a familiar name. She is the author of novels which have won a warm welcome from the public in addition to being a writer of many short stories. She was once an editor of Munsey's Magazine.

TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON

That poets are proverbially unbusiness-like is a rule that does not fit Mr. Towne, for he is the author of several books of verse and at the same time is one of the most successful editors in New York. Formerly the editor of The Designer, he is now the managing editor of McClure's Magazine. A juvenile by Mr. Towne, "Jolly Jaunts with Jim," appeared in the fall of 1915.

TYSON, CARROLL S., JR.

After years of study in Munich and Paris Mr. Tyson has returned to America as an artist of prominence, and in 1915 took the gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a landscape of rare beauty.

UNDERWOOD, CLARENCE

The tall, superb American girls by Mr. Underwood, which appear upon the covers of our greatest magazines, reappear every Christmas in calendars which are sold by the hundreds of thousands, and thus the Underwood Girl is ever pleasantly with us. As an illustrator as well, Mr. Underwood is everywhere known.

VANDERLIP, CHARLOTTE DELIGHT

Miss Vanderlip is a recent adventurer in authorship, as she is only eight years old. She is the daughter of Frank A. Vanderlip, the wealthy banker and capitalist, who, upon confessing that versification is not numbered among his many accomplishments, proved that it is after all one of the family talents.

VAN DYKE, PAUL

Professor Van Lyke holds the chair of European History at Princeton University. He is a minister of the Presbyterian Church and is the author of authoritative historical works, such as "The Age of the Renaissance" and "Renaissance Portraits.”

VAN RENSSELAER, MRS. SCHUYLER

Mrs. Van Rensselaer is a writer whose articles have appeared in prominent magazines for many years. She is an authoritative art critic, and has written a book of poems. She is the author of a book on English cathedrals and a history of the city of New York.

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.

Mr. Washington is one of the most prominent and useful citizens in the United States. His educational work among

the colored people of the South has done much to lift his people from the depths into which race prejudice and lack of advantages had sunk them. He has pointed the way toward the solution of one of the most difficult problems that confronts the nation.

WELLS, CAROLYN

Carolyn Wells has written a great many books, but the public loves her best as a humorist. She has written more nonsense rhymes than anyone on this side of the world. Some of them have been collected from the magazines in which they appeared and have been published under various titles, such as "Idle Idyls," "The Jingle Book," "A Nonsense Anthology," etc. She is the author, among other books, of "The White Alley," "The Rubaiyat of a Motor Car" and "The Lover's Baedeker."

WEST, ANDREW F.

Dean West is a noted classical scholar and authority on Latin literature. Besides being the professor of Latin at Princeton University, he is the Dean of the new Graduate School at Princeton.

WHITE, STEWART EDWARD

Mr. White is one of the most successful novelists in the country, author of "The Conjuror's House," "The Claim Jumpers," "Gold," "The Mystery," "The Riverman," etc. He is a Westerner, an apostle of the outdoor life who spends most of his time in the mountains, or in African jungles.

WHITNEY, HELEN HAY

An author whose books appeal to everyone, including young people. She is the author of "Birds and Beasts,"