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

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. Ill Austin, Mrs. Gaskell, Charlotte Bronté, and George Eliot. The first page of Adam Bede, with an affectionate note of dedication to George Lewes, signed Marian. Lewes, dated 1859, is one of the most interesting objects in the World’s Fair. In the same case with these precious manuscripts may be seen three fine editions of the “ Boke of St. Albans,” by Dame Juliana Berners. Germany has been wonderfully generous to us, and her 500 admirably selected and beautifully bound volumes aie a gift from the women of Germany. Spain sends us a treasure of old and rare books and priceless manuscripts. Bohemia has 307 volumes, and France 800. One of the valuable features of the collection in our library is the large number of pamphlets and monographs on professional and scientific subjects. All women who have published papeis of this description are earnestly invited to send copies of their work to the librarian of the Woman’s Building. The visitor will find volumes written by women, from Japan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Germany, France, Bohemia, Belgium, Cuba, Peru, and Austria, and one volume in Arabic, by an American missionary. Many of the States and countries represented have given their collection to the Library of Woman’s Work, which is to be established in the per- manent Woman’s Building, to the erection of which all who have labored for our building look forward. A card, catalogus of ths books, which now number 7,000, is being" arranged, tinder the direction of Miss Edith E. Clarke. No author who has examined the careful and beautiful arrangement of the catalogue would be satisfied to remain unrepresented in it. We earnestly beg all women writers, who have not already done so, to contribute their books on whatever subject. In this connection it seems well to call attention to the very large field of work which, opens for women as librarians. Theie is no department of human labor for which our American girls are better fitted than to the careful, patient, exact profession of the librarian. Mr. Melville Dewey of the State Library at Albany gives, as the result of his experience, the statement that our young women are better fitted for this work than their brothers. We learn from him that there is an ever-increasing demand for women IiIdthtih-hs Owing to the unavoidable delay attending the arrangement of the library, it has been impossible to secure the necessary data for the preparation, of an article which does justice to this most