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56 1866. Educ.: Oswego High School; architectural apprentice in offices of Bruce Price, N. Y., and Green and Wicks, Buffalo; m. Member N. Y. Architects' League. Lives in Rochester, N. Y.

BRIDGES, Robert: Author "October"; Poet-Laureate since 1913; b. 23 Oct. 1844, m. 3 Sept. 1884, Monica, e. d. of Alfred Waterhouse, R. A.; one s. two d. Educ.: Eton; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford (Hon. Fell.) After leaving Oxford travelled; then studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's, London; retired 1882.

BYNNER, Witter: Author "A Canticle of Pan"; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881. Educ.: Harvard (1902). One time Assistant editor McClure's Magazine and Literary Advisor McClure, Phillips and Co.

CATHER, Willa Sibert: Author "Youth and the Bright Medusa"; b. Winchester, Va., Dec. 7, 1875. Educ.: Univ. of Nebraska, graduating, 1895. Staff of Pittsburgh Daily Leader, 1897-01; asso. editor McClure's Magazine, 1906-12.

CHENEY, Sheldon: Author "The Art Theatre." b. Berkeley, California, 29 June, 1886. m. Maud Meaurice Turner, of Berkeley, 1910. Three children. Educ: University of California, A. B. 1908. In business 1908-11, teaching and writing 1911-16, editorial and critical work 1916-20. Editor Theatre Arts Magazine.

DAVIES, William Henry: Author "The Autobiography of a Supertramp"; b. 20 April 1870, Newport, Mon.; of Welsh parents. Educ.: picked up knowledge among tramps in America, on cattle boats, and in the common lodging-houses in England. Apprenticed to the picture frame making; left England when apprenticeship closed and tramped in America for six years; came back to England and lived in common lodging-houses in London, making several trips as pedlar of laces, pins and needles; sometimes varied this life by singing hymns in the street; after eight years of this published book of poems; became a poet at 34.

DAWSON SCOTT, C. A.: Author "The Rolling Stone"; b. Dolwich near London. Educ.: Anglo-German College in Camberwell. m. Major H. F. N. Scott. Three children. Founded corps to prepare women to take men's places during war. Later founded Tomorrow Club of which she is now Lecture Secretary.

DAY, Clarence, Jr.: Author "This Simian World": b. New York City, 1874. Educ.: St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) and Yale. Has lived at various health resorts and on ranches in the West, has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange and has served as an Enlisted man in the U. S. Navy. Not married. Lives in New York.

DE LA MARE, Walter: Author "The Three Mulla Mulgars"; b. 1873, lives in England.