BANDINI, HELEN ELLIOTT (Mrs. Arturo), b. Indianapolis, Ed. in public schools.  Came to California in 1874 when father was president of Indiana Colony, which founded Pasadena.  Writer for newspapers and magazines. Author: History of California (Am.  Book Co.) The Romance of California History (in press.) Address: 1149 San Pasqual St., Pasadena.  Calif.

BARTLETT, DANA WEBSTER, b. Bangor, Me., Oct. 27, 1860. Ed. Iowa
College (Grinnell, La.,) 1882.  Attended Yale and Chicago Theol.  Sems. 
Pastor Phillips Church, Salt Lake.  Since 1896 pastor Bethlehem Inst. 
Church, Los Angeles, which now covers six city lots. Author: The
Better City:  “Our Government in Social Service.” Address: Bethlehem
Institutional Church, Los Angeles, Calif.

BARUCH, BERTHA HIRSCH, b. Province of Posen, Germany.  Came to New London, Conn., with father in 1876.  Wrote poetry in her teens and was encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts.  Active in College Settlement and Univ.  Ext. work.  Attended Penn.  Univ. and Yale.  On editorial staff Los Angeles Times. Address: 1168 W. 36th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

BASHFORD, HERBERT, b. Sioux City, Ia., 1871.  Contributor to leading magazines on literature and the drama. Author: The Wolves of the Sea; The Tenting of the Tillicums:  At the Shrine of Song, etc.  Writer of several successful plays, The Defiance of Doris, etc. Address: San Jose, Calif.

BINGHAM, HELEN, b. San Francisco, Aug. 23, 1885. Ed. private tutors, with special reference to Archaeology. Author: In Tamal Land. $2.00. Address: 785 Cole St., San Francisco, Calif.

BLAND, HENRY MEADE, b. Suisun, Solano Co., Calif., April 21, 1863. Ed. public schools, University of the Pacific (Ph.D., 1890), Stanford University (M.A., 1895).  Professor English Literature since 1898 at State Normal School, San Jose.  Contributor leading magazines. Author: A song of Autumn and Other Poems. 1908. $1.00. Address: State Normal School, San Jose, Calif.

BOHAN, MRS. ELIZABETH BAKER, b. England, August 18.  When 4 years old came to Milwaukee, Wisc. Ed. in public schools.  Married in Milwaukee and began to write short stories, poems, and philosophical articles. Author: The Drag-net, 1909, C.M.  Clark, Boston.  The Strength of the Weak, Grafton Co., Los Angeles $1.50 each. Address: 1844 Santa Cruz Street, Los Angeles, California.

BOOTHS, CHARLES BEACH, b. Stratford, Conn., July 3, 1851. Ed. Stratford Acad. 1894 came to Los Angeles.  Pres.  Nat.  Irrigation Congress, 1896-7.  Writer on Conservation of National Resources. Address: Los Angeles, Calif.

BRANNICK, LAURENCE, b. Scardene, Co.  Mayo, Ire., May 24, 1874. Ed. St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam and Maynooth College.  B.A. 1907 Univ.  S. Calif.  Writer for papers and magazines.  Especially interested in perpetuation of Gaelic language. Address: Station K., Los Angeles, Calif.