SAUNDERS, MARSHALL, b. in Nova Scotia.  Lived for awhile in San Francisco and in California began study of birds and animals. Author: Beautiful Joe. $1.25.  My Pets. $1.25.  Several other books. Address: 28 Carleton St., Halifax, N.S., Canada.

SCHEFFAUER, HERMAN, b. San Francisco, Feb. 3, 1876. Ed. public and private schools.  Studied architecture and art at Mark Hopkins Institute.  Writer for newspapers, magazines and reviews in France, England, Germany and America. Author: Both Worlds poems, 1903.  Looms of Life, 1908. $1.25.  The Sons of Baldur, 1908.  Niagara.  An American Romance of four generations, 1909.  Sire of Bohemian Club Jinks, 1908. Address: 184 Eldridge St., New York.

SCOTT, JOSEPH, b. Penrith, Cumberlandshire, Eng., July 16, 1867. Ed. St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, Durham.  Prof.  Rhetoric and Eng.  Lit.  St. Bonaventure’s College, Allegheny, N.Y.  Came to Calif. 1893 Pres.  Board of Ed. of Los Angeles.  Writer on Educational and Civic Subjects for newspapers and magazines. Address: Los Angeles, Calif.

SETON, GRACE GALLATIN, b. Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 28, 1872. Ed. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn.  Writer for newspapers and magazines of America, England and France. Author: A Woman Tenderfoot.  Nimrod’s Wife.  Doubleday, Page & Co. Address: 80 W. 40th St., New York, and Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, Conn.

SEVERANCE, CAROLINE MARIA SEYMOUR, b. Canandaigua, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1820.  One of founders and first president, 1868, of New England Woman’s Club.  Known as “The Mother of Women’s Clubs.” Author: The Mother of Women’s Clubs (with Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy.) $1.00. Address: 896 W. Adams St., Los Angeles, Calif.

SEXTON, MRS. ELLA M., b. Ill. Ed. in St. Louis, Mo.  Came to Calif. in 1874.  Contributor to Eastern and Pacific Coast magazines. Author: Stories of California.  Macmillan & Co.  California at Christmas-Tide (poems).  Also a collection of Mission poems and one of Children’s Verse.  She has also seven one-act comedies used by clubs and for amateur production. Address: 171 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

SHINN, CHARLES HOWARD, b. Austin, Texas, April 29, 1852. Ed. Univ. of Calif, and Johns Hopkins Univ.  Taught school.  Contributor to newspapers and magazines.  For ten years Inspector Univ. of Calif.  Experimental Stations.  Appointed 1902 head forest ranger Sierra Reserve, Calif. Author: Pacific Rural Handbook, 1879.  Land Laws of Mining Districts, 1884.  Mining Camps, 1885.  Co-operation on the Pacific Coast, 1888.  Story of a Mine, 1897.  Various Forestry Monographs, etc. Address: Northfork, Madera Co., Calif.

SHINN, MILLICENT WASHBURN, b. Niles, Calif., April 15, 1858. Grad. Univ. of Calif.  A.B. 1880.  Ph.D. 1898.  Editor Californian, 1882.  Editor Overland Monthly, 1883-94. Author: Notes on the Development of a Child (also in German.) The Biography of a Baby, 1901.  The Development of the Senses, and the First Two Years of Childhood.  Also poems, stories, essays, critiques, etc. Address: Niles, Calif.