Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition
Forfatter: Maud Howe Elliott
År: 1893
Forlag: Goupil & Co.
Sted: Paris and New York
Sider: 287
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
Chigaco, 1893.
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164
ART AND HANDICRAFT
A request sent out by the Board of Lady Managers to foreign
countries, asking contributions of children’s literature, met with a
prompt response, and 100 volumes have been received.
The committee on literature for children of the Congress
Auxiliary assumed the furnishing of the library. Its idea was—
so far as books are concerned—to select the library from the child’s
and youth’s standard, not from the point of view of the adult.
WATER-COLOR. Rosina Emmet Sherwood. United States. (Copyrighted.)
The books the children most longed for were to be upon, the shelves,
rather than the books their elders thought most suitable to them.
To really get at an average preference in children, boys and girls of
all ages were consulted and asked to send lists of their favorite
books.
The matter was placed before many public and private schools,
and the chairman of the committee received hundreds of letters