BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES


ANGIER, BELLE SUMNER, (Mrs. Walter Burn.) Special training in
floricultural and horticultural subjects. Staff writer on Los Angeles
Times and Los Angeles Express. Writer on garden and floral topics for
California newspapers and many magazines. _Author:_ Garden Book of
California. _Address:_ 1036 N. Washington St., Los Angeles, Calif.

ARCHER, RUBY, _b._ Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 28, 1873. _Ed._ Kansas City
High School and private tutors. Contributor of poems, translations
from French and German dramas and lyrics, prose articles on Art,
Architecture, Music, Biblical Literature, Philosophy, etc., for papers
and magazines. _Author:_ Little Poems. $1.25. Thought Awakening.
$1.00. _Address:_ R.F.D. No. 8, Box 11-A, Los Angeles, Calif. (The
Studio is at Granada Park, on the Covina Electric Line.)

AUSTIN, MARY. _Author:_ The Land of Little Rain, an account of the
California Desert. $2.00. The Basket Woman, a book of Indian myths and
fanciful tales for children. $1.50. Isidro, a romance of Mission days.
$1.50. The Flock, an account of the shepherd industry of California.
$2.00. Santa Lucia, a novel. $1.50. Lost Borders, the people of the
desert. _Address:_ Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, or care of Harper
Bros., New York.

BAMFORD, MARY ELLEN, _b._ Healdsburg, Calif. _Author:_ Up and Down the
Brooks. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75c. Her Twenty Heathen. Pilgrim
Press. 50c. My Land and Water Friends. D. Lothrop & Co. The Look About