*RUSSELL, JOHN.* Born at Davenport, Ia., April 22, 1885. Son of Charles Edward Russell, publicist. Educated in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Northwestern University. Left college to make a tour of the world. Spent some time in the South Seas. Reporter and special writer New York Herald, 1907. Special correspondent to Panama and Peru, 1908. Staff interviewer, teacher, and fiction writer, New York Herald Sunday Magazine, 1908 to 1911. Free lance magazine contributor under seven pseudonyms until 1916. On volunteer mission for U. S. Public Information, England and Ireland, 1918. First published story, “First Assistant to the Substitute,” Circle Magazine, July, 1907. Chief interests, fiction and travel. Married Grace Nye Bolster of Chicago; daughter, Lydia. No acknowledged books. Adversary. (3) *SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS. (MRS. BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).* Born at Englewood, N. J., March 28, 1873. Educated by governess at home. Left America when nine years of age, and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London. Has studied painting and exhibited at Paris. Married, 1908. Books: “The Dull Miss Archinard,” 1898; “The Confounding of Camelia,” 1899; “The Rescue,” 1902; “Paths of Judgment,” 1904; “The Shadow of Life,” 1906; “A Fountain Sealed,” 1907; “Amabel Channice,” 1908; “Franklin Winslow Kane,” 1910; “Tante,” 1911; “The Nest,” 1912; “The Encounter,” 1914. Lives near Oxford, England. *Daffodils. (1234) *SINGMASTER, ELSIE.* (_for biography, see 1917_). *Release. (234) *SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR.* (_for biography, see 1917_). *Return. (34) *SPRINGER, FLETA CAMPBELL.* (_for biography, see 1917_). *Solitaire. (234) *STEELE, WILBUR DANIEL.* (_for biography, see 1917_). Always Summer. *Dark Hour. Eternal Youth. Man’s a Fool. Perfect Face. *Taste of the Old Boy. *Wages of Sin. White Man.