The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each

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FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN, b. Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., Aug. 29, 1860. Ed. State Normal, Fredonia, N.Y. Grad. B.S., University Mich., 1890. Ph.D., University Calif., 1896. Engaged in geological and geographical work: State Mining Bureau. 1890-1894. Asst. U.S. Geological Survey, 1897-98. Author: text books: Stories of Our Mother Earth. 60¢. Home Geography. Rocks and Minerals. All by Ed. Pub. Co., Boston. Physiography of California. Macmillan. The Western United States. D.C. Heath. Practical Physiography for High Schools. Allyn & Bacon. Address: Arch St., Berkeley, Calif.

FORBES, MRS. A.S.C. (nee Harrye Smith) b. Pennsylvania. Came California 1895. Works for re-establishment of El Camino Real. Created and established Nat. Naval Memorial. Author: Mission Tales in Days of the Dons. $1.50. California Missions and Landmarks. 25¢. Address: 1104 Lyndon St., South Pasadena, Calif.

GATES, ELEANOR (Mrs. R.W. Tully.) Ed. Stanford, Univ. of Calif. Leaped into fame with her first book. Biography of a Prairie Girl, first pub. in Century Magazine. Author: Biography of a Prairie Girl, 1904. The Plow Woman, 1907. Cupid, the Cow Punch, 1908. Good Night, 1908. Address: Alma, Calif.

GUINN, J.M., writer of History of Southern California. Secretary S. Cal. Hist. Soc. Member Los Angeles Board of Education. Address: 5539 Monte Vista St., Los Angeles, Calif.

HART, JEROME ALFRED, b. San Francisco. Sept. 6, 1854. Ed. Cal. public schools. Asso. editor, 1880-91. editor, 1891-1906. San Francisco Argonaut, to which contributed letters of foreign travel (1887-1904), and translations from French, German, Spanish, etc. Sec. 1880-91, pres. 1891-1906, of The Argonaut Publishing Co. Author: Argonaut Letters, 1900. Two Argonauts in Spain. 1904. A Levantine Log-Book, 1905. Argonaut Stories (edited) 1906. Contributor to magazines, etc. Address: Weyewolde, Santa Clara Co.. Calif.

HIBBARD, GRACE, b. Mass. Ed. in Mass. Author: Wild Poppies. Moulton, Buffalo, N.Y. $1.00. California Violets. Robertson, S.F. $1.00. Wild Roses of California. Robertson. $1.00. Forget-Me-Nots From California. Robertson. $1.00. Booklets: More California Violets. 25¢. California Christmas Songs. 25¢. Daffodils. 25¢. Songs of the Samisen. 25¢. 'Neath Monterey Pines. 25¢. Del Monte Oaks. 25¢. Santa Claus Cheated, and Other Christmas Stories. Twenty-eight poems have been set to music. Address: Pacific Grove, Calif.

HOLDEN, EDWARD SINGLETON, b. St. Louis, Nov. 5. 1846. Grad. Wash. Univ., 1866. West Point 1870. Pres. Univ. of Cal. 1885-8. Director Lick Observatory 1888-98. Librarian U.S. Military Acad. since 1901. Author: many scientific works. See Who's Who. Handbook Lick Observatory, 1888. Mountain Observatories, 1896. Pacific Coast Earthquakes, 1898, etc. Address: West Point, N.Y., and Century Club, New York.

HOWARD, CLIFFORD, b. October 12, 1868, Bethlehem, Penn. Came to Calif, in 1906. Author: Thoughts in Verse, 1895; (out of print.) Sex Worship: An Exposition of the Phallic Origins of Religion, 1897. $1.50. The Story of a Young Man: a Life of Christ, 1898. $2.50. Graphology, 1904. 50¢. Curious Facts, 1905. 50¢. Washington as a Center of Learning, 1905. $1.00. The Passover. What Happened at Olenberg. Address: Los Angeles, Calif.

HUNT, ROCKWELL DENNIS, b. Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 3, 1868. Grad. Napa College. Ph.B., 1890. A.M., 1902. Johns Hopkins Univ. Ph.D., 1895. Prof. Hist. Napa College, 1891-3. Prof. Hist. and Political Sc., Univ. of Pacific, 1895-1902. Prin. San Jose High School, 1902-1908. Lect. Stanford Univ., 1898. Prof. Economics and Sociology, Univ. of S. Calif., 1908, Author: California the Golden. Address: 1319 W. 37th Place, Los Angeles, Calif.

IRWIN, WALLACE, b. Oneida, N.Y., Mar. 15, 1875. Grad. Denver High School, 1895. At Stanford Univ., 1896-9. Special writer S.F. Examiner, Ed. S.F. News-Letter 1901, and Overland Monthly 1902. Author: Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum. Paul Elder, S.F. 25¢ and 50¢. Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam, Jr. Paul Elder, S.F. 50¢ and 75¢. Nautical Lays of a Landsman. Dodd, Mead Co., N.Y. $1.00. At the Sign of the Dollar. Duffield & Co., N.Y. $1.00. Chinatown Ballads. Duffield & Co., N.Y. $1.00. Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers. Macmillan Co., N.Y. $1.50. Shame of the Colleges. Outing Pub. Co. Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50. Address: 273 W. 84th St., New York.