BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE, _b._ May 5, 1832, Granville, Ohio. _Ed._ Granville Academy until sixteen years of age. Clerk in bookstore in Buffalo, N.Y. Came to San Francisco March, 1852. While building up a large book-selling and publishing house, Mr. Bancroft worked for 30 years on the colossal history which bears his name, issued in Vols. as follows: The Native Races of the Pacific States, 5 vols. History of Central America, 3 vols. History of Mexico, 6 vols. North Mexican States and Texas, 2 vols. California, 7 vols. Arizona and New Mexico, 1 vol. Colorado and Wyoming, 1 vol. Utah and Nevada, 1 vol. Northwest Coast, 2 vols. Oregon, 2 vols. Washington, Idaho and Montana, 1 vol. British Columbia, 1 vol. Alaska, 1 vol. California Pastoral, 1 vol. California Inter Pocula, 1 vol. Popular Tribunals, 2 vols. Essays and Miscellany, 1 vol. Literary Industries, 1 vol. Also Book of the Fair, Book of Wealth, Resources of Mexico, The New Pacific, etc. _Address:_ 2898 Jackson St., San Francisco. BANDINI, HELEN ELLIOTT (Mrs. Arturo), _b._ Indianapolis, _Ed._ in public schools. Came to California in 1874 when father was president of Indiana Colony, which founded Pasadena. Writer for newspapers and magazines. _Author:_ History of California (Am. Book Co.) The Romance of California History (in press.) _Address:_ 1149 San Pasqual St., Pasadena. Calif. BARTLETT, DANA WEBSTER, _b._ Bangor, Me., Oct. 27, 1860. _Ed._ Iowa College (Grinnell, La.,) 1882. Attended Yale and Chicago Theol. Sems. Pastor Phillips Church, Salt Lake. Since 1896 pastor Bethlehem Inst. Church, Los Angeles, which now covers six city lots. _Author:_ The Better City: "Our Government in Social Service." _Address:_ Bethlehem Institutional Church, Los Angeles, Calif. BARUCH, BERTHA HIRSCH, _b._ Province of Posen, Germany. Came to New London, Conn., with father in 1876. Wrote poetry in her teens and was encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts. Active in College Settlement and Univ. Ext. work. Attended Penn. Univ. and Yale. On editorial staff Los Angeles Times. _Address:_ 1168 W. 36th St., Los Angeles, Calif. BASHFORD, HERBERT, _b._ Sioux City, Ia., 1871. Contributor to leading magazines on literature and the drama. _Author:_ The Wolves of the Sea; The Tenting of the Tillicums: At the Shrine of Song, etc. Writer of several successful plays, The Defiance of Doris, etc. _Address:_ San Jose, Calif. BINGHAM, HELEN, _b._ San Francisco, Aug. 23, 1885. _Ed._ private tutors, with special reference to Archaeology. _Author:_ In Tamal Land. $2.00. _Address:_ 785 Cole St., San Francisco, Calif. BLAND, HENRY MEADE, _b._ Suisun, Solano Co., Calif., April 21, 1863. _Ed._ public schools, University of the Pacific (Ph.D., 1890), Stanford University (M.A., 1895). Professor English Literature since 1898 at State Normal School, San Jose. Contributor leading magazines. _Author:_ A song of Autumn and Other Poems. 1908. $1.00. _Address:_ State Normal School, San Jose, Calif.