IRA REMSEN, former president of Johns Hopkins University.
GIFFORD PINCHOT, professor of forestry, Yale University.
GUSTAVE KOBBE, writer of biographies.
JACOB A. RIIS, philanthropist and author.
EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER, story-writer and poet.
JOHN LANG, writer of children's books.
JEANIE LANG, writer of children's books.
JOHN H. CLIFFORD, editor and writer.
HERBERT T. WADE, editor and writer on physics.
CHARLES R. GIBSON, writer on electricity.
LILIAN CASK, writer on natural history.
BLANCHE MARCHESI, opera singer and teacher.
JOHN FINNEMORE, traveler and writer of boys' stories.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, inventor of the telephone.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, poet.
CHARLES H. CAFFIN, author of "A Guide to Pictures."
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS.
ANDREW F. CURRIER, M.D., popular medical writer.
HELEN KELLER, the blind and deaf writer.
OLIVER HERFORD, humorist and illustrator.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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Books are as much a part of the furnishing of a house as tables and
chairs, and in the making of a home they belong, not with the luxuries
but with the necessities. A bookless house is not a home; for a home
affords food and shelter for the mind as well as for the body.
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