THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. ⭘ At the Head of Modern Lyrical Writers ⭘ Birth and Early Life ⭘ Mercantile Career ⭘ War Correspondent ⭘ Life in Boston ⭘ Works ⭘ Visit to England ⭘ ‘Alec Yeaton’s Son’ ⭘ ‘On Lynn Terrace’ ⭘ ‘Sargent’s Portrait of Edwin Booth at “The Players.”’ RICHARD WATSON GILDER. ⭘ Purity of Sentiment and Delicacy of Expression ⭘ Education and Early Life ⭘ Journalist ⭘ Editor of “Hours at Home” ⭘ Politician and Reformer ⭘ A Staunch Friend of our Colleges ⭘ A Man of Exalted Ideals ⭘ ‘Sonnet (After the Italian)’ ⭘ ‘The Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln’ ⭘ ‘Sheridan’ ⭘ ‘Sunset From the Train’ ⭘ ‘O Silver River Flowing to the Sea’ ⭘ ‘There is Nothing New Under the Sun’ ⭘ ‘Memorial Day’ ⭘ ‘A Woman’s Thought’ JOHN HAY. ⭘ His Western Birth and Education ⭘ Service to President Lincoln ⭘ Military Career ⭘ Appointed Ambassador to Great Britain ⭘ A List of His Books ⭘ How He Came to Write “Little Breeches” ⭘ ‘Little Breeches’ ⭘ ‘Jim Bludso’ ⭘ ‘How it Happened’ JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. ⭘ Great Popularity with the Masses ⭘ A Poet of the Country People ⭘ Birth and Education ⭘ First Occupation ⭘ Congratulated by Longfellow ⭘ Mr. Riley’s Methods of Work ⭘ The Poet’s Home ⭘ Constantly “on the Wing” ⭘ ‘A Boy’s Mother’ ⭘ ‘Thoughts on the Late War’ ⭘ ‘Our Hired Girl’ ⭘ ‘The Raggedy Man’ BRET HARTE. ⭘ The Poet of the Mining Camp ⭘ Birth and Education ⭘ Emigrated to California ⭘ Schoolteacher and Miner ⭘ Position on a Frontier Paper ⭘ Editorial Position on the “Golden Era” ⭘ Secretary of the U. S. Mint at San Francisco ⭘ In Chicago and Boston ⭘ U. S. Consul to Crefield and Glasgow ⭘ A List of his Works ⭘ ‘The Society Upon the Stanislaus’ ⭘ ‘Dickens in Camp’ EUGENE FIELD. ⭘ The “Poet of Child Life” ⭘ Troups of Children for his Friends ⭘ Peace-maker Among the Small Ones ⭘ A Feast with his Little Friends ⭘ A Devoted Husband ⭘ Congenial Association with his Fellow-workers ⭘ Birth and Early Life ⭘ His Works ⭘ ‘Our Two Opinions’ ⭘ ‘Lullaby’ ⭘ ‘A Dutch Lullaby’ ⭘ ‘A Norse Lullaby’ WILL CARLETON. ⭘ His Poems Favorites for Recitation ⭘ Birth and Early Life ⭘ Teacher, Farmhand and College Graduate ⭘ Journalist and Lecturer ⭘ A List of his Works ⭘ ‘Betsy and I Are Out’ ⭘ ‘Gone With a Handsomer Man’ CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER (JOAQUIN). ⭘ Removal from Indiana to Oregon ⭘ Experiences in Mining and Filibustering ⭘ Marries and Becomes Editor and Lawyer ⭘ Visit to London to Seek a Publisher ⭘ ‘Thoughts of My Western Home’ ⭘ ‘Mount Shasta’ ⭘ ‘Kit Carson’s Ride’ ⭘ ‘J. Miller’s Alaska Letter’