Mrs. Wharton's literary and social success has been phenomenal. The French are the most exclusive people, socially, in the world, but they have opened their doors to Mrs. Wharton in appreciation of her many gifts. The author of "The House of Mirth" speaks French as fluently as a native, and in that language writes regularly for L£ Revue des Deux Mondes. Some of Mrs. Wharton's other works of fiction are "The Valley of Decision," "Sanctuary" and "The Fruit of the Tree."
MARY JOHNSON BAILEY LINCOLN.
Born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, July 8, 1844. Daughter of Rev. John Milton and Sarah Morgan Johnson Bailey. In 1865 she married David A. Lincoln, at Norton, Massachusetts, who is now deceased; is a writer and lecturer on domestic science, and was the first principal of the Boston Cooking School; culinary editor of the American Kitchen Magazine in 1893; is now a noted lecturer on cookery in the seminaries of the large cities of the United States; author of the "Boston Cook Book," "Peerless Cook Book," "Carving and Serving," and other works on domestic science.
EDITH DOWE MINITER.
Born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, May 19, 1869. Daughter of William Hilton and Jennie E. Tupper Dowe. In 18S7 married John T. F. Miniter, now deceased. In 1890 was city editor of the Manchester Press, the only woman editor of a daily in New England. In 1895-6 she was editor of the Boston Home Journal, and was the first woman president of the National Amateur Press Association. In 1888 she wrote an article for the Boston Globe, entitled "How to Dress on $40 a Year," which created widespread notice and discussion.
CHARLOTTE PORTER.
Born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1859. Daughter of Dr. Henry Clinton and Eliza Betts Porter; has edited, in conjunction with Helen A. Clarke, "Poems of Robert Browning," "Browning's Complete Works," and "Mrs. Browning's Complete Works," "The Pembroke Edition of Shakespeare," and is sole editor of the "First Folio Edition of Shakespeare"; author of "Dramatic Motive in Browning's 'Strafford,'" "Shakespeare's Studies," and has contributed poems to the Atlantic, Century, Outlook, Poet-Lore, and other periodicals.
HELEN ARCHIBALD CLARKE.
Born in Philadelphia. Daughter of Hugh Archibald and Jane M. Searle Clarke; lecturer on mythology in Philadelphia, also on literary topics; has edited, in connection with Charlotte Porter, the "Poems of Robert Browning," "Clever Tales," from the French, Russian and Bohemian; "Browning's Complete Works," and a folio edition of Shakespeare; author of "Browning's England," "Browning's Italy," "Longfellow's Country," "Child's Guide to Mythology," "Ancient Myths in Modern Poets," in conjunction with Charlotte Porter; "Browning's Study Pro-
