MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD,
Historical novelist, Chicago.

LAURA E. RICHARDS,
Author, Gardiner, Me.

ROSWELL FIELD,
Author, editor _The Evening Post>_, Chicago.

TUDOR JENKS,
Author, associate editor _Saint Nicholas_, New York.

GEORGE A. HENTY,
Traveller, author, London, England.

KIRK MUNROE,
Writer of stories for boys, Cocoanut Grove, Fla.

EDITH M. THOMAS,
Poet, West New Brighton, N.Y.

CAROLINE TICKNOR,
Author, editor, Boston.

NATHAN HASKELL DOLE,
Author, translator, literary editor _Current History_, Boston.

WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER, D.D., LL.D.,
President Chicago University.