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

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 117 trace the evolution of American fiction, through the writers of the sentimental school, Mrs. Ellett, Mrs. Embury, and Mrs. Pindah; through the works of Caroline Cheseboro, Mrs. Kirkland, and the earlier writings of Grace Greenwood, to the novel which portrays the manners of our own day—the pleasing, graceful stories of Amelia Barr, Grace Litchfield, Mary Hallock Foote; the society studies of Mrs. Burton Harrison and Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cru- ger, and the character studies and sketches of Augusta Larned and Maria Louisa Pool. There are eighty-one volumes of chil- dren’s serials; conspicuous among them are those of Mary Mapes Dodge, “who,” Mrs. Thompson says, in her Wednesday After- noon Club report, “slid into celebrity upon the silver skates of 4 Hans Brinker.’ ” and who has been long and honorably known as CARVED WOOD PANEL. United States. the editor of 5/. Nicholas. Many valuable books command atten- tion in the department of the “ Miscellanies.” Notable among these are “ Musical Instruments and Their Homes,” by Mrs. Julia Crosby Brown; a very complete collection of the works of Miss Catherine Beecher; a “ History of French Painting,” by Mrs. J. S. T. Stranahan, and thirty-one volumes by Lydia Maria Child. It is of interest to note that one of the few Afro-Americans connected with the World’s Fair, in an official way, is a member of the New York State Board of Women Managers, who volunteered to collect the works of Mrs. Child as a tribute from the blacks to her noble work in the anti-slavery cause. A very interesting department is made up of books written by New York women in foreign tongues. Among these there are “The Acts of the Apostles,” in Burmese, by Mrs. Judson; the “ Standard Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect,”