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E. M. Forster was born in England, in 1879. He was educated at Tonbridge, and at King's College, Cambridge. He is now living at Weybridge, England. Mr Forster plans to publish in a complete edition the letters of Eliza Fay, of whom he writes in the present issue of The Dial.

The article by Elie Faure which appears in this month's Dial is one of the most important chapters contained in a book listed for publication in France next fall.

A retrospective exhibition of work by Rockwell Kent is being held at the Galleries of Wildenstein & Co., from April 15 to May 13.

Hermine David, who is a native of Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. Her work has been shown at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. During a trip to the United States a few years ago she exhibited at the Daniel and Bourgeois Galleries, and at the Penguin Club. During the spring of 1923 a collection of her paintings of the Midi and of the environs of Paris was shown abroad.

James Chapin was born at West Orange, New Jersey, in 1888, and studied art chiefly in Antwerp and Paris. His first important exhibition was held last fall at the New Gallery, where the picture which is reproduced in this month's Dial was shown. Mr Chapin also provided the illustrations for Robert Frost's North of Boston.

Arthur Davison Ficke was born November 10, 1883, at Davenport, Iowa. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and later studied law at the University of Iowa, being admitted to the bar in 1908. Since 1907 volumes of his poems and essays have appeared at regular intervals. He has travelled extensively in China and Japan, and is an authority on Japanese prints, having published a work on this subject. During the war he served in France as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He now lives in New York City.