*STREET, JULIAN.* Born in Chicago, April 12, 1879. Educated in Chicago public schools and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario, Can. His first writing was done when he helped to revive the school paper there. At nineteen became a reporter on New York Mail and Express. “Became dramatic editor of that paper at twenty-one—just about the kind of dramatic editor you might expect a twenty-one-year old to be.” Then in the advertising business for awhile and abroad for a year. First published story, “My Enemy—the Motor,” McClure’s Magazine, July, 1906. “I was fortunate in having such friends as Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, with whom I went abroad, and who encouraged my early efforts to write. The greatest honor I have ever had in my work was an invitation from Booth Tarkington to collaborate with him upon a play, ‘The Country Cousin,’ which is still running. I work slowly and laboriously, and my production is small, because, though I love writing, it is very difficult for me. I dislike exercise but am fond of poker, which I play badly. My chief interests, aside from my wife and two children, are in what Mark Twain called ‘the damned human race,’ and in Havana cigars.” Books: “My Enemy—the Motor,” 1908; “The Need of Change,” 1909; “Paris à la Carte,” 1911; “Ship-Bored,” 1911; “The Goldfish,” 1912; “Welcome to our City,” 1913; “Abroad at Home,” 1914; “The Most Interesting American,” 1915; “American Adventures,” 1917. Lives in New York City. *Bird of Serbia. (3) *TARKINGTON, BOOTH.* Born in Indianapolis, July 29, 1869. Educated at Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton University. Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters. Books: “The Gentleman from Indiana,” 1899; “Monsieur Beaucaire,” 1900; “The Two Vanrevels,” 1902; “Cherry,” 1903; “In the Arena,” 1905; “The Conquest of Canaan,” 1905; “The Beautiful Lady,” 1905; “His Own People,” 1907; “The Guest of Quesnay,” 1908; “Beasley’s Christmas Party,” 1909; “Beauty and the Jacobin,” 1911; “The Flirt,” 1913; “Penrod,” 1914; “The Turmoil,” 1915; “Penrod and Sam,” 1916; “Seventeen,” 1916; “The Magnificent Ambersons,” 1918. Plays: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (with E. G. Sutherland), 1901; “The Man from Home” (with Harry Leon Wilson), 1906; “Cameo Kirby,” 1907; “Your Humble Servant,” 1908; “Springtime,” 1908; “Getting a Polish,” 1909; “The Country Cousin” (with Julian Street), 1917. Lives in Indianapolis. *Three Zoölogical Wishes.