BURBANK, WM. F., b. in San Francisco. Ed. Oakland High School and State University.  Written poems for magazines, etc. Address: Union Square Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

BURDETTE, ROBT.  JONES, b. July 30, 1844.  Greensboro, Greene Co., Penn. Grad. High School, Peoria, Ill., 1861.  D.D.  Kalamazoo College, 1905.  Writer on Peoria Transcript and Evening Review.  Writer and afterwards editor Burlington Hawkeye.  Large contributor to newspapers and magazines.  Pastor Temple Baptist Church, July, 1903, to August, 1909.  Resigned through ill health. Author: The Sons of Asaph.  The Life of William Penn.  Smiles Yoked With Sighs, 1900.  Rise and Fall of a Mustache, 1877.  Chimes From a Jester’s Bells, 1897. Address: Sunnycrest, Orange Grove Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

BURGESS, GELETT, b. Boston, January 30, 1866. Ed. public schools, Boston. Grad. Massachusetts Institute Technology, B.S., 1887.  Instructor topo. drawing University of California, 1891-4.  Ass.  Ed. The Wave, 1894-5.  Edited Lark, San Francisco, 1895-7. Author: Vivette, (novelette.) Copeland & Day, 1897. $1.25.  The Lively City O’Ligg, (Juvenile.) F.A.  Stokes Co., 1899. $1.50.  Goops, and How to be Them, (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1900. $1.50.  A Gage of Youth, (Poems, chiefly from “The Lark.”) Small, Maynard & Co., 1901. $1.00.  The Burgess Nonsense Book, (Prose and Verse.) Stokes Co., 1901. $2.00.  The Romance of the Commonplace.  Elder & Shepherd, S.F., 1901. $1.50.  More Goops, and How Not to Be Them, (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1903. $1.50.  The Reign of Queen Isyl.  Short stories in collaboration with WILL IRWIN.  McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. $1.50.  The Picaroons.  Short stories in collaboration with WILL IRWIN.  McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. $1.50.  The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne. (Satire and Parody.) Stokes, 1904. 75c.  Goop Tales. (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1904. $1.50.  A Little Sister of Destiny. (Short Stories.) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, $1.50.  The White Cat. (Novel.) Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1907. $1.50.  The Heart Line. (Novel.) Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1907. $1.50.  The Maxims of Methuselah. (Satire and Parody.) Stokes Co., 1907. 75c.  Blue Goops and Red. (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1909. $1.35 net.  Lady Mechante. (4-wart Novel.) Stokes Co., 1909. $1.50. Address: 1285 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

CARR, SARAH PRATT, b. Maine, 1850.  Taken to California 1852. Ed. in public schools of California.  Wrote for newspapers and magazines.  Short time Unitarian minister. Author: The Iron Way, McClurg’s, $1.50.  Waters of Eden, run serially in Alaska-Yukon magazine.  Billy Tomorrow. (Juvenile book.) McClurg’s. Address: The Hillcrest, Seattle, Wash.

CARTER, CHARLES FRANKLIN, b. Waterbury, Conn., July 19, 1862. Grad. School of Fine Arts, Yale University.  Pupil of J. Alden Weir, New York City.  Resided in California 1891-95, 1898-1900. Author: The Missions of Nueva California, 1900.  The Whitaker & Ray Company. $1.50.  Out of print.  Some By-Ways of California, 1902.  The Grafton Press, New York. $1.25. Address: 232 S. Main St., Waterbury, Conn.