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Rh many letters from all parts of the country and many compliments from public men who had enjoyed those letters. In 1908 she went to England to prepare a report for the United States Bureau of Labor on the conditions of women in English factories, and while in London received a proposition to write for a London publisher a book on "Home Life in America." That book was published in 19 10, and it received extended and favorable reviews in all the great literary papers and the dailies. Many of the reviewers did not know the author, but credited her with information, industry and cleverness in handling the subject.

In the past year she has had stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Magazine, The Sunday Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and other magazines here and in England.

Mrs. Busbey is a college bred woman who came back to literature after she had served her country as a mother, and is destined to achieve a brilliant success in the literary world.

Born in Bath, Maine, June 28, 1865. Daughter of Joshua Lufkin and Helen Lauraman Harvey Douglas. Writer of Sunday School lessons for the primary department in Sunday School journals. Active worker in the missionary societies of the Methodist Church. Delegate to the Boston Peace Congress. Founder of the Peace Makers' Band, and the author of several volumes of verse and songs, also stories and booklets. Contributor to magazines and religious papers.

Born in Boston, February 27, 1850. Daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe. Author of sketches and many short stories, letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe and the life of Florence Nightingale for young people. Married Henry Richards, of Gardiner, Maine, June 17, 1871.

Born July 15, 1852, in Westbrook, a former suburb of Portland, Maine. Daughter of Wilson and Eliza Hannah Phenix Morton. Teacher of geography in the normal department of the Battle Creek College, Michigan, at one time. Has