Senility.

(34) *ANDREWS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Ditch.

(34) *BABc.o.c.k, EDWINA STANTON* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Cruelties.

*"G.o.ddess Size."

*BEEDE, RALPH G.* Born in Redfield, S. D., June 3, 1895. Educated in public schools, Rolla, N. D., and Shattuck Military School, Faribault, Minn. Three years at University of North Dakota. Managed newspapers in Winnebago, Neb., and Makoti, N. D. Has taught school and was superintendent of schools at Goodrich, N. D., for two years. Chief interests, writing and music. First story published, "Cera," Harper's Magazine, May, 1918.

Cera

(4) *BEER, THOMAS* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Beneficiary.

"*BRANGWYN, JOHN.*" First story published, "Bell-Tower of P'an-Ku." His first book will be published soon. He lives in Washington, D. C.

*Bell-Tower of P'an-Ku.

*BROWN, HEARTY EARL.* Born 1886, Schoolcraft, Mich. Degrees A.B. and M.A. from University of Michigan. Member of the English Faculty, University of Kansas. First published story, "The Marrying Time,"

Atlantic Monthly, October, 1918. Lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Marrying Time.

(23) *BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND.* Born in Alton, Ill. Educated in Washington, D. C., and at University of Michigan. Profession, writer of fiction. Chief interest, writing. First published stories: "2620 Oxford Place," Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1900, "The Mathematics Man,"

Woman's Home Companion, August, 1900. Books published: "Diane," 1904; "Dawn," 1907; "The Messenger," 1910; "White Roses," 1910; "Philippa at Halcyon," 1910; "Uncertain Irene," 1911; "The Hallowell Partnership,"

1912; "Wages of Honor," 1917. Lives at Long Beach, Cal.

*Buster.

*BROWNELL, AGNES MARY.* Born at Concordia, Kans. Educated in Concordia public and high schools, supplemented by four years in a western school of music. Music teacher. Chief interests, music, an ineradicable habit of prowling around libraries, and out-of-door jaunts. First published story, "The Fifer," Youth's Companion, June 28, 1917. Lives at Concordia, Kans.

Sanctuary.

(14) *BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Wings of the Morning.

*BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.* Born at Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1869. One year in Muscatine high school. Bill clerk, bookkeeper, salesman, editor, and now acting Cashier of Flushing National Bank, of which he is Vice-President. Chief interest, letting himself know he is alive. First published story, "Shorty and Frank's Adventure," in a deceased publication whose name is forgotten. Author of "Pigs is Pigs," 1906; "French Decorative Styles," 1906; "The Incubator Baby," 1906; "Mr.

Perkins of Portland," 1906; "The Great American Pie Co.," 1907; "Confessions of a Daddy," 1907; "Kilo," 1907; "The Cheerful Smugglers,"

1908; "That Pup," 1908; "The Thin Santa Claus," 1909; "Mike Flannery on Duty and Off," 1909; "Water Goats and Other Troubles," 1910; "Adventures of a Suburbanite," 1911; "The Jack Knife Man," 1913; "Red Head and Whistle Breeches," 1916; "Dominie Dean," 1917; and "Philo Gubb," 1918.

Lives in Flushing, N. Y.

*Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk.

(2) *BUTLER, KATHARINE.* Born in Baltimore, Md., Oct 2, 1890, of New England parentage. Has lived in Salem, Ma.s.s., and the nearby inland countryside of Ess.e.x County since 1896. Education desultory. First published story, "In No Strange Land," Atlantic Monthly, March, 1915.

Lives in Danvers, Ma.s.s.

*Black Pearl.

*CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.* Born in Richmond, Va., April 14, 1879. Educated at McGuire's School in Richmond, and graduated from College of William and Mary, 1898. Professions in order: school teacher, proof reader, newspaper reporter, and coal miner: at present, genealogist and writer.

First published stories: "Love Letters of Falstaff," Harper's Monthly, March, 1902; and "As Played Before His Highness" (republished as "The Ducal Audience"), Smart Set, 1902. Author of the following volumes: (novels) "The Eagle's Shadow," 1904; "The Cords of Vanity," 1909; "The Soul of Melicent," 1913; "The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck," 1915; "The Cream of the Jest," 1917; (tales) "The Line of Love," 1905; "Gallantry,"

1907; "Chivalry," 1909; "The Certain Hour," 1916; (essays) "Beyond Life," 1918; (verse) "From the Hidden Way," 1916; (genealogy) "Branchiana," 1906; "Branch of Abingdon," 1911; "The Majors and Their Marriages," 1915. Lives at Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Va.

*Some Ladies and Jurgen.

(23) *CANFIELD, DOROTHY (MRS. JOHN R. FISHER).* Born at Lawrence, Kans., Feb. 17, 1879. Graduate of Ohio State University and Columbia University. Secretary Horace Mann School, 1902-05. Married, 1907. Has traveled widely in Europe. Now a.s.sisting Miss Winifred Holt in War Relief Work at Paris. Author of "Corneille and Racine in England," 1904; (with G. R. Carpenter) "English Rhetoric and Composition," 1906; "What Shall We Do Now?" 1906; "Gunhild," 1907; "The Squirrel-Cage," 1912; "The Montessori Mother," 1913; "Mothers and Children," 1914; "Hillsboro People," 1915; "The Bent Twig," 1915; "The Real Motive," 1916; (with Sarah Cleghorn) "Fellow Captains," 1916; "Understood Betsy," 1917; "Home Fires In France," 1918. Lives at Arlington, Vt.

Little Kansas Leaven.

On the Edge.

Pharmacienne.

*CARVER, GEORGE.*

In a Moment of Time.

(234) *COBB, IRVIN S.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Gallowsmith.

(4) *CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Wild-Wing.

*d.i.c.kINSON, ROY.* Born at Newark, N. J., March 14, 1888. Educated at Newark Academy and Princeton University, graduating in 1909. Profession, advertising and manufacturing. Five years with Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Chief interests, labor psychology and the other fellow's viewpoint.

First story published, "Playing Hookey," Delineator, November, 1916. Now Captain in the Ordnance Department at Washington. Engaged in work for stimulating industry in ordnance plants.

Some of Our Folks, and War.

(4) *DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Open Window.

(134) *DWIGHT, H. G.* (_for biography, see 1917_) _and_ *TAYLOR, JOHN.*

*Emerald of Tamerlane.

*"ELDERLY SPINSTER" (MARGARET WILSON).* Born in Iowa, Jan. 16, 1882.

Graduated from University of Chicago, 1904. Lived in India for the most part, 1904 to 1916. Since then she has been resting, gardening, and farming. Chief interest, the Americanization of American children through the school in which she is teaching. First published story, "Taffeta Trousers," Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.

G.o.d's Little Joke.

*ELLERBE, ALMA ESTABROOK,* and *ELLERBE, PAUL LEE.* Mrs. Ellerbe was born in Greenfield, Ind., and educated at Oxford College, Ohio. Chief interests, people, writing, and automobiling. First published magazine story, "The Requital," Harper's Magazine, September, 1903. Author of "The Rule of Three." Mr. Ellerbe was born in Montgomery, Ala. Had one year in which he scrupulously refrained from study at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Now a.s.sistant Chief, Americanization section, Council of National Defense. Chief interests: English poetry, music, writing, automobiling. First published story, "The Vacant Forty,"

Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1913. Has been chief naturalization examiner for the U. S. Department of Labor at Denver. Chautauqua lecturer. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe plan to do all their writing in collaboration, preferably in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies.