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

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 119 council was formed, with Mrs. Runkle as chairman. The field of periodical literature was analyzed and divided into its most con- spicuous departments. A woman who is an authority in each of these lines of work was asked to make a collection of the most brilliant articles written by New York women on. these various subjects, the collections being as far as possible chronological. There are thirty-four of these little volumes, each a charming and interesting book in itself. Messrs. Harper & Bros, are about to publish six of these folios in book form, under the title “ The Dis- taff Series.” The thirty-nine folios which hang upon this post are also an exhibit of model type-writing. This work, done by Miss Louise Conklin of New York, with expert assistants, is a most beautiful illustration of the fact that any craft may become an art through the perfection of its execution. This work has been pre- pared by the Board of Women Managers of the State of New York, in the hope that it may prove an ornament to the woman’s library, which is the gift of their State to the Woman’s Building, and that it may permanently benefit working-women, for whose labor in many directions it fixes a standard. Blanche Wilder Bellamy. DESIGN FOR HAND MIRROR. Mrs. E. W. Blashfield. United States.