sful plays.

EDWARD VERRAL LUCAS, associate editor of Punch and editor of several
popular anthologies, author of "A Wanderer in Holland."

JOHN WILLIAM MACKAIL, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, author
and editor of many volumes dealing with ancient Greek and Roman
literature.

JOHN MASEFIELD, known chiefly for his long poems of life among the
British poor.

ALFRED EDWARD WOODLEY MASON, writer of romantic novels, of which "The
Four Feathers" and "The Turnstile" are perhaps the best known, and of
several popular dramas.

GILBERT MURRAY, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University since
1908, editor and translator of Greek classics, perhaps the greatest
Greek scholar now living.

HENRY NEWBOLT, "laureate of the British Navy," author of "Drake's Drum"
and many other songs.

BARRY PAIN, author of "Eliza" and other novels and short stories of
adventure, of many well-known parodies and poems.

SIR GILBERT PARKER, of Canadian birth, poet and author of romantic
novels, including "The Judgment House," and "The Right of Way."

EDEN PHILLPOTTS, realistic novelist, noted for his exact portraits of
the English rustic, author of "Down Dartmoor Way."

SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO, one of the most popular of living dramatists.
His plays include "Sweet Lavender" and "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."

SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge
University, poet, novelist, and writer of short stories.

SIR OWEN SEAMAN, since 1906 editor of Punch, writer of parodies and
light verse.

GEORGE R. SIMS, journalist, poet, and author of many popular dramas,
including "The Lights of London," "Two Little Vagabonds," and "Harbour
Lights."

MAY SINCLAIR, writer of novels dealing with modern moral problems, "The
Divine Fire" and "The Combined Maze" being best known.

FLORA ANNIE STEEL, author of "Tales from the Punjab," "On the Face of
the Waters," "A Prince of Dreamers," and other novels and short stories,
most of which deal with life in India.

ALFRED SUTRO, dramatist, author of "The Walls of Jericho," "The
Barrier," and other plays of modern society."

GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge;
author of "England Under the Stuarts," and other historical and
biographical works.

RT. HON. GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN, historian, biographer of Macaulay, and
author of a four-volume work on the American Revolution.

HUMPHRY WARD, journalist and author, sometime Fellow of Brasenose