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

166 ART AND HANDICRAFT Baffled in that direction, a new plan was made. If the library could not be representative it could at least be interesting-. A large number of writers for children in Europe and America were requested by personal letter each to send one book, with an auto graph inside. This plan has proved most effective. A very interesting- collection of authors’ copies has been made. So much for the nucleus of the library. For its decoration we have more than a hundred portraits of BOLERO VEST IN WHITE SATIN EMBROIDERED IN GOLD. Mme. Pailleron. France. writers—photographs with autographs affixed whenever possible— and prints, from the life-size to the mere cabinet. SZ. Nicholas, Harper s Young People, Wide Awake, and the Youth's Companion make exhibits of original sketches from which their publications havs bssn illustrated, valuable manuscripts, autographs, etc., together with the various processes by which, step by step, a complete magazine is produced. Besides these there are interesting loans of manuscripts, artists’ sketches, and photographs. One of these is a collection of views of