Biographical Notes
Henry C. Merwin has practiced law in Boston for a generation. A tireless and enthusiastic worker in the cause of kindness to dumb animals, he organized, many years ago, and still largely manages, the Decoration-Day Workhorse Parade—an institution which has been extraordinarily beneficent in its results.
William Beebe is Curator of Ornithology at the New York Zoölogical Park, and has traveled far and wide, especially in tropical countries, in study or search of every bird that flies.
Jane Addams, a pioneer among those Americans who have spent their lives in ameliorating the conditions which breed poverty in our great cities, has been for nearly thirty years the head of Hull-House, Chicago, which she founded in 1889.
Reverend Samuel McChord Crothers is the minister of the First Church (Unitarian) at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The most individual among our essayists, he is known wherever the essay is read.
Professor Robert M. Gay fills the chair of English at Goucher College for Women in Baltimore.
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie is an American missionary to Southwest Africa, where she has long lived with the black folk on terms of sympathy and understanding.
Edgar J. Goodspeed is a professor of Chicago University, where he teaches biblical and patristic lore.
William T. Foster has been, since its establishment, President of Reed College, Oregon, where his policy of opposition to intercollegiate athletics is creating a new tradition of college sport.
Lida F. Baldwin is a teacher of Youngstown, Ohio, and a lover and observer of all natural things.
Fannie Stearns Gifford is a frequent contributor of both prose and verse to the Atlantic Monthly from her home in Pittsfield, Mass.
John Jay Chapman is an essayist of uncompromising vigor and independence of thought. The author of many books, including a memoir of William Lloyd Garrison, he has also published, with a notable introduction, the letters of his son Victor, who was killed in the flying service on the Western Front.
Lucy M. Donnelly is a lecturer in English in Bryn Mawr College.
Sharlot Mabridth Hall is a writer and traveler, with a very considerable and specialized knowledge of Southwestern America.
Richard Rowland Kimball, a resident of Adamsville, R. I., is a pleasant essayist, and a true lover of dogs.
Laura Spencer Portor, one of the editors of a well-known woman's paper in New York, is a writer of versatile and temperamental charm.
Mrs. Anne C. E. Allinson, wife of a professor at Brown University, is an enthusiastic and informed devotee of Greek history, art, and literature. Before her marriage Mrs. Allinson was Dean of Women in the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Taylor still lives in the Faroe Islands, with whose customs and mode of life she has the familiarity of a native, with more than a native's appreciation.