Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

106 ART AND HANDICRAFT and noble woman, Lucy Larcom, whose peaceful life has ended peacefully not many months after that of her friend, John Green- leaf Whittier. Her “ New England Girlhood ” gives us glimpses of a life that it is good to know about, to remember, in these days when luxury and the love of it grow too fast upon us; and some of lier poems find an honored place in every anthology of American poets. How long is it since Louisa Alcott died? four years, or four weeks? Her memory is so fresh in our minds it is hard to realize the flight of time. One seldom sees a fresh copy of her works; they SEAT OF STOOL IN LEATHER WORK. Princess Maud of Wales. England. aie always lead to pieces, thumbed by eager schoolgirls, marked, with enthusiastic pencilings, which the guardians of libraries try in vain to prevent. But widely popular as her stories are, we feel that the woman herself was finer than anything she wrote; and the heroic figure pictured so ably and so lovingly in Mrs. Cheney’s admirable life of Miss Alcott is but feebly shadowed forth in her own writings. Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton has given us several volumes of poems and some charming stories, of which one set in particular,