OBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY. Born at Paducah, Ky., 1876. Education
limited to attendance of public and private schools up to age of
sixteen. Reporter and cartoonist for several years; magazine contributor
since 1910. Chief interests, outdoor life and travel. First short story,
"The Escape of Mr. Trimm," Saturday Evening Post, November, 1910. Author
of "Back Home," "Cobb's Anatomy," "The Escape of Mr. Trimm," "Cobb's
Bill of Fare," "Roughing It de Luxe," "Europe Revised," "Paths of
Glory," "Speaking of Operations," "Local Color," "Fibble, D. D.," "Old
Judge Priest," "Speaking of Prussians," "Those Times and These," and
"'Twixt the Bluff and the Sound." Lives within commuting distance of New
York City.

*Boys Will Be Boys.
Cinnamon Seed and Sandy Bottom.
*Family Tree, The.
*Quality Folks.

(3) CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN. Born at South Boston, Mass. Education,
parochial and public schools of Boston and a few months in Harvard.
Married Elizabeth F. Hurley, 1904. Clerk, inspector, and surveyor with
U. S. Engineering Corps, Savannah, 1892-95. Won first Olympic
championship of modern times at Athens, 1896. Served in Cuban campaign
and in U. S. Navy, 1907-08. Progressive candidate for Congress, 1912.
Member National Institute of Arts and Letters. Author "Jeb Hutton," "Out
of Gloucester," "The Seiners," "The Deep Sea's Toll," "The Crested
Seas," "An Olympic Victor," "Open Water," "Wide Courses," "Sonnie Boy's
People," "The Trawler," "Head Winds," and "Running Free." Lives in
Boston.

Breath o' Dawn.

(2) COWDERY, ALICE. Born in San Francisco. Graduate of Leland Stanford
University. First short story, "Gallant Age," Harper's Magazine,
September, 1914. Lives in California.

Robert.

CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN. Born in 1887 in Coxsackie, N. Y. Her father moved
his family to Rockaway Beach, L. I., in 1888, when it was little more
than an isolated fishing-station. It was her good fortune to live among
the novel conditions attending the rapid growth of this pioneer village,
and to be surrounded by those interesting and widely varying types of
people who are drawn to a city-in-the-making. Educated in public schools
of the Rockaways, and at a boarding school in Tarrytown, N. Y. Student
of painting. First story published in 1913 in a magazine of the Munsey
group. Lives in Far Rockaway.

Once in a Lifetime.

DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL. Born in San Francisco, 1881. Education; grammar
school and seventeen years' supplementary scho