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

116 ART AND HANDICRAFT Henri Browne, and others, with the special support and aid of Mrs. Runkle, the brilliant literary critic of New York and the president of the club, has done a very thorough and ex- haustive work. Great assistance has been rendered by the com- mittees in each county of the State, by several of the well- known publishers, and by most of the authors represented. The collection contains children’s books, works of fiction, science, cookery, and household economics, education, language, translation, original verse, compiled verse, travels, biography, his- PEN AND INK DRAWING—“KITTENS AT SCHOOL.” A. R. Wheelan. United States. By permission of the Century Co. (Copyrighted.) tory, art, and religion. The oldest book is a novel, “The Female Quixote,” by Charlotte Ramsay Lennox, who is said to have been the first native-born author of the province of New York. This young girl at the age of sixteen went from the wild-beast-ridden, Indian-haunted wikis of the west, in the province of New York, to the gay metropolis of London. Here she was much courted and feted. Among her admirers were Smollet, Fielding, Richardson, and Doctor Johnson—the latter wrote epilogues and prologues for her plays, championed her novels and poems, and made her the fash- ion of the hour. From this eighteenth century beginning we may