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Brister, Edwin M. P

lawyer, jurist, poet, was born June 26, 1850, in Cadiz, Ohio. He first worked as a printer; subsequently attending the Denison university, from which he graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the bar three years later. He has practiced his profession with success in Newark, Ohio, where he has also filled the office of probate judge. His poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines, and in several standard collections.

BRISTOL, MRS. AUGUSTA COOPER, educator, lecturer, poet, was born April 17, 1835, in Croydon, N. H. She attended the Canaan Union academy and the Kimball Union academy, and then began educational work. In 1869 she published a volume of poems and has since contributed extensively, both prose and verse, to current literature.

For several years she was president of the Ladies' Social Science class in Vineland, N. J.; in 1880 she gave a course of lectures before the New York Positivist society on The Evolution of Character, and has since become well known throughout America as a lecturer of great ability. Her works are: Poems; The Relation of the Maternal Function to the Woman's Intellect; The Philosophy of Art; Science and its Relations to Character; The Present Phase of Woman's Advancement; and The Web of Life, a collection of verse.