oling in University of
Hard Knocks. In fire insurance business for nearly twenty years. First
story, "An Invasion," San Francisco Argonaut, Oct. 8, 1910. Gave up
business, 1916, to devote himself to literature. Lives in San Francisco.

Empty Pistol, The.
Gifts, The.
*Laughter.
*Our Dog.

DODGE, MABEL.

Farmhands.

(23) DUNCAN, NORMAN. Born at Brantford, Ont., 1871. Educated University
of Toronto. On staff New York Evening Post, 1897-01; professor rhetoric,
Washington and Jefferson College, 1902-06; adjunct professor English
literature, University Of Kansas, 1908-10. Travelled widely in
Newfoundland, Labrador, Asia, and Australasia. Died 1916. Author: "The
Soul of the Street," "The Way of the Sea," "Dr. Luke of the Labrador,"
"Dr. Grenfell's Parish," "The Mother," "The Adventures of Billy
Topsail," "The Cruise of the Shining Light," "Every Man for Himself,"
"Going Down from Jerusalem," "The Suitable Child," "Higgins," "Billy
Topsail & Company," "The Measure of a Man," "The Best of a Bad Job," "A
God in Israel," "The Bird-Store Man," "Australian Byways," and "Billy
Topsail, M.D."

*Little Nipper of Hide-an'-Seek Harbor, A.

(13) DWIGHT, H. G. Born in Constantinople, 1875. Educated at St.
Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vt., and Amherst College. Chief
interests: gardening and sailing. He remembers neither the title nor the
date of his first published story. This because he was his own first
editor and publisher. "First real story," "The Bathers," Scribner's
Magazine, December, 1903. Author of "Constantinople," "Stamboul Nights,"
and "Persian Miniatures." Lives in Roselle, N. J. Is now an army field
clerk in France.

*Emperor of Elam, The.

FERBER, EDNA. Born in Kalamazoo, Mich., 1887. Educated in public and
high schools, Appleton, Wis. Began as reporter on Appleton Daily
Crescent at seventeen. Employed on Milwaukee Journal and Chicago
Tribune; contributor to magazines since 1910. First short story, "The
Homely Heroine," Everybody's Magazine, November, 1910. Jewish religion.
Author of "Dawn O'Hara," "Buttered Side Down," "Roast Beef Medium,"
"Personality Plus," "Emma McChesney & Co.," and "Fanny Herself."
Co-author with George V. Hobart of "Our Mrs. McChesney." Lives in New
York City.

*Gay Old Dog, The.

FOLSOM, ELIZABETH IRONS. Born at Peoria, Ill., 1876. Grandfather and
father were both writers. For a number of years member of editorial
staff of The Pantagraph at Bloomington, Ill., doin