Ethel Watts Mumford was an American author from New York City. After her first husband grew intolerant of her prolific writing and art career, she fled to San Francisco in 1899 with their only child, a son.

This book contains:

- The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette.

- The Bells of Cullam .

- The Cordon Bleu of the Sierra.

- The Eyes of the Heart.

- The Fear Motif.

- Her Groove.

- How Beelzebub Came to the Convent.