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A BRIEF WHO'S WHO 1864. Explored glacial deposits Finland and Sweden 1871. Arrested for labour agitation 1874; confined in St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress; escaped 1876. Founded Le Revolte at Geneva; Expelled from Switzerland 1881; sentenced at Lyons to 5 yrs. imprisonment, 1883; Liberated 1886. Lived in England till Russian Revolution of 1917.

McCLURE, John: Author "Airs and Ballads"; b. Ardmore, Oklahoma, 19 Dec. 1893. Educ.: University of Oklahoma; in Paris, 1913-14. Member of the national Hobo College fraternity, "Quo Vadis"; has tramped about two thousand miles in the South-west. Runs The Olde Bookshop in New Orleans.

MACKAYE, Percy: Author "Rip Van Winkle"; b. New York, 16 March 1875. Educ. Harvard A. B., Hon. M. A. Dartmouth, Univ. of Leipzig; m. Marion H. Morse of Cambridge 1898. Travelled in Europe 1898-1900, taught private school New York 1900-1904, lectured Harvard, Yale, Columbia on theatre 1904-1919.

MAUGHAM. William Somerset: Author "The Land of the Blessed Virgin"; b. 1874; m. Syrie Barnado; one d. Educ.: King's School, Canterbury, Heidelberg University, St. Thomas's Hospital.

MENCKEN, Henry Louis: Author "Prejudices"; b. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 12, 1880. Educ.: Balt. Poly. Inst., graduating 1896. Unmarried. Reporter, 1899, city editor, 1903-5, Baltimore Morning Herald; editor Evening Herald, 1905; on staff Baltimore Sun, 1906-17; literary critic Smart Set, 1908, and editor (with George Jean Nathan) since 1914. War correspondent in Germany and Russia in 1917.

MILNE, Alan Alexander: Author "First Plays"; b. 18 Jan. 1882; assistant editor of Punch 1906-14; Royal Warwickshire Regt., Feb. 1915-19; m. Dorothy, d. of Martin de Selincourt. Educ.: Westminster; Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited The Granta, 1902; started journalism in London, 1903.

NATHAN George Jean: Author "Comedians All"; b. Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 15, 1882; Educ.: Cornell University, graduating 1904. Unmarried. Editorial staff N. Y. Herald, 1904-6; dramatic critic and asso. editor Bohemian Magazine and Outing, 1906-8, also Burr McIntosh Monthly, 1908; dramatic critic for Phila. North American, McClure's Syndicate and Cleveland Leader since 1912; dramatic critic Puck (with James Huneker) 1915-16; editor Smart Set (with H. L. Mencken) since 1914.

NYBURG, Sidney: Author "The Gate of Ivory" etc.; b. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 8, 1880; Educ.: Baltimore City College; LL. B. Univ. of Maryland, graduating 1901. m. Jan. 9, 1907. Practised law in Baltimore since 1902.

OPPENHEIM, James: Author