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Hart, William Octave

lawyer, was born Aug. 19, 1857, in New Orleans, La. He received his education in the pub- In lic schools of his native city, and at Lusher's Commercial academy. 1878 he commenced the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1880 by the supreme court of Louisiana. Since that time he has the record of having tried more cases than any other lawyer in New Orleans. He has traveled extensively throughout the American continent; has been in every state and territory of the union; every city of any size in the United States; and through Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Mr. Hart owns the largest private library in the south. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Louisiana in 1898; and has served three terms as a member of the examining committee of the supreme court of the state of Louisiana, for the admission of candidates to the bar. He is a member of the Commercial Law league and the American Bar association.

HARTE FRANCIS BRET, journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 25, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. He is a California writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in the Overland Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and since that date he has lived abroad, but mainly in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow- Bound at Egle's; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Chila's Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle's Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel's; Clarence; and In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker's Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills.