and poetic dramas, Assistant
Keeper in the British Museum, in charge of Oriental Prints and Drawings.

ANDREW CECIL BRADLEY, critic, sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford
University, author of a standard work on Shakespeare.

ROBERT BRIDGES, Poet-Laureate. Prominent as a physician before his
poetry brought him the high honor he now enjoys.

HALL CAINE, one of the most popular of contemporary novelists.

R.C. CARTON, dramatist, author of "Lord and Lady Algy" and "A White
Elephant."

CHARLES HADDON CHAMBERS, dramatist, author of "John a Dreams," part
author of "The Fatal Card."

GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, essayist, novelist, poet; defender of orthodox
thought by unorthodox methods.

HUBERT HENRY DAVIES, dramatist, author of "The Mollusc" and "A Single
Man."

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, creator of "Sherlock Holmes."

HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS FISHER, Vice Chancellor of Sheffield University,
author of "The Mediaeval Empire," "Napoleon Bonaparte," and other
historical works.

JOHN GALSWORTHY, a novelist and dramatist who has come into great
prominence during the last five years, his plays, "Strife" and
"Justice," and his novel, "The Dark Flower," being widely known.

ANSTEY GUTHRIE, (F. ANSTEY,) author of "The Brass Bottle," "The Talking
Horse," and other fantastic and humorous tales.

SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD, author of many widely read romances, among them
being "She."

THOMAS HARDY, generally considered to be the greatest living English
novelist.

JANE ELLEN HARRISON, sometime Fellow and Lecturer at Newnham College,
Cambridge University; writer of many standard works on classical
religion, literature, and life.

ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS, (ANTHONY HOPE,) author of popular historical
romance and sketches of modern society, including "The Prisoner of
Zenda."

MAURICE HEWLETT, poet and romantic novelist, author of "Earthworks Out
of Tuscany" and other mediaeval tales.

ROBERT HICHENS, novelist, author of "The Garden of Allah," "Bella
Donna," and other stories.

JEROME K. JEROME, humorist, famous for "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
and the "Three Men" series, and for his play "The Passing of the Third
Floor Back."

HENRY ARTHUR JONES, dramatist, author of "The Silver King," "The
Hypocrites," and other plays.

RUDYARD KIPLING needs no introduction to people who read the English
language.

WILLIAM J. LOCKE, author of "The Morals of Marcus," "Septimus," and "The
Beloved Vagabond," which have been made into succes