Henry Longan Stuart is an English author and journalist who has spent a considerable part of his life since 1901 in the United States. He served through the War as a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery, was attached to the Italian Third Army after Caporetto, and was press censor in Paris after the Armistice and during the Peace Conference. He is the author of “Weeping Cross,” a study of Puritan New England, “Fenella,” and a quantity of fugitive poetry and essays.

Deems Taylor was born in New York in 1885, and was graduated from New York University in 1906. He studied music with Oscar Coon from 1908 to 1911. He has been connected with the editorial staff of the “Encyclopedia Britannica,” and has been assistant Sunday editor of the New York Tribune and associate editor of Collier’s Weekly, and at present is a critic of the New York World. He has composed numerous musical works, including “The Siren Song” (symphonic poem, awarded the orchestral prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1912), “The Chambered Nautilus” (cantata), “The Highwaymen” (cantata written for the MacDowell festival), and “Through the Looking Glass” (suite for symphonic orchestra).

Hendrik Willem Van Loon was born in Holland in 1882, and received his education in Dutch schools, at Cornell and Harvard, and at the University of Munich, from which he received his Ph.D., magna cum laude, in 1911. He was a correspondent of the Associated Press in various European capitals, and for some time was a lecturer on modern European history in Cornell University. He is at present Professor of the Social Sciences in Antioch College, and is the author of “The Fall of the Dutch Republic,” “A Short History of Discovery,” “Ancient Man,” “The Story of Mankind for Boys and Girls,” “The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom,” etc.

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