BRIGMAN, MRS. ANNIE W., b. Honolulu, Dec. 3.  Came to California in young girlhood.  Writer of verses to accompany her own artistic photographs. Address: 647 32nd St., Oakland, Calif.

BRININSTOOL.  E.A., b. Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N.Y., October 11, 1870.  Attended common school until 17.  In 1887 learned printer’s trade.  In 1895 came to Calif.  In 1900 began to write humorous verse for the Los Angeles Times, Record, Examiner and Express.  Since 1905 on Los Angeles Express in editorial paragraphs and a short column of verse and miscellaneous matter, dubbed, “Lights and Shadows.” Address: The Express, Los Angeles, Calif.

BROOKS, FRED EMERSON, b. Waverly, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1850. Grad. Madison (now Colgate) Univ., 1873.  Lived in S.F. 1873-1891.  S.F.  Call styled him California’s Celebration Poet.  Writer of plays, magazine articles, etc. Author: Old Ace and Other Poems.  Pickett’s Charge and Other Poems, (both by Forbes & Co., Chicago.) Address: 564 W. 182nd St., New York.

BROWN, HENRY HARRISON, b. June 26, 1840, Uxbridge, Mass. Ed. at public schools, Nichols Academy at Dudley, Mass., and Meadville, Penn., Divinity School.  Began to teach school when he was 17, and with the exception of three years in service during the Civil War continued teaching till he was 30.  Preacher in Unitarian churches for 7 years; lectured for 17 years on reformatory topics. Pub. in San Francisco from 1900 to 1906, Now:  A Journal of Affirmation.  Is contributor to progressive magazines and lectures extensively. Author: Concentration:  The Road to Success. 50c. and $1.00.  How to Control Fate Through Suggestion. 25c.  Not Hypnotism, But Suggestion. 25c.  Man’s Greatest Discovery. 25c.  Self Healing Through Suggestion. 25c.  The Call of the Twentieth Century. 25c.  Dollars Want Me:  The New Road to Opulence. 10c. Address: “Now” Home, Glenwood, Santa Cruz Co., Calif.

BRUN, SAMUEL JACQUES, b. Mime, Province of Gard, France, of Huguenot parents. Grad. French Univ.  Instructor in French at Haverford College, Cornell Univ., Stanford Univ.  Now an attorney. Author: Tableaux de la Revolution (a French reader, 9th ed.) Tales of Languedoc (Folk Lore.) $1.50. Address: 110 Sutter St., and 1467 Willard St., San Francisco.

BRUN, MRS. S.J., nee Hanna Otis, b. Auburn, N.Y.  Writer for magazines. Address: 1467 Willard St., San Francisco.

BURBANK, BLANCHE M., b. West Troy, N.Y.  Has lived most of her life in California.  Has written poems for the magazines. Author: Reed Notes, 1905. Address: Union Square Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

BURBANK, LUTHER, b. Lancaster, Mass., March 7, 1849. Ed. at Lancaster, and in the schools of adversity, Nature, and prosperity. Author: The Training of the Human Plant. Address: Santa Rosa, Calif.