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

118 ART AND HANDICRAFT “The Life of Christ,” and a volume of translations of some of the most familiar English hymns, in this dialect, by Miss Adele Field; “The Peep of Day,” in Arabic, by Ellen Jackson Foote; “Early Church History” and “ Legends of Helena, and Monica the Mother of St. Augustine,” in Hindustani, by Mrs. Humphrey; a number of books written in German by Talvi (Mrs. Edward Robinson)—many of these have great literary and historical value; and one translation, from English into French, entitled “ Dans un Phare." In scientific literature we have an especially valuable collection of medical works by the women doctors of the State, while in the 219 volumes of orig- inal verse, many well-known songs and lyrics are to be found. Con- spicuous among these are “ Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep,” by Mrs. Anna Willard; “ Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” by Mrs. Elizabeth. Akers Allen; “ One Sweetly Solemn Thought,” by Phoebe Carey; “I Love to Steal Awhile Away,” by Mrs. Francis Brown; and last and best known, the famous lyric, “ The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In history we have the “ Standard Colonial History of New York,” by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb; the “ History of Woman Suffrage,” by Susan B. Anthony, and the “Sabbath in Puritan New England,” by Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. .These books, with many others of great value and interest, form only the first part of the New York exhibit. The second part consists of a showing of the work of seventy-five literary clubs and classes in the State. These records are type-written, and beautifully bound in leather covers bearing the seal of the State. Each volume contains the constitution, by- laws, list of members, and history of the club, with four representative papers, written by its members. These lians; upon a standard at one extremity of or j Boston the bookshelves. These records nave been collected Collection. and installed by Sorosis, which lias served as a sub- UNITED states. committee for the Board of Women Managers. Another stand- ard holds thirty-nine folios, bound like the club folios, except that the seal is white instead of blue. On these two posts there are nractically four exhibits in one. Two of the folios contain a list of 3,000 names of the women of the State who have contributed to the press, while a third volume holds a list of editors and assistant editors. These records have been prepared by the Buffalo Graduates Club, to show the impor- tant part New York women take in periodical literature. A literary