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much indeed. He painted both in water color 

 and in oil, and whatever his medium he always 

 produced a rich, warm color. 



His son, Sir PHILIP BURNE-JONES (1861- ), 

 has also won distinction as a painter, his best- 

 known work being a striking but repellent 

 Vampire based on Kipling's poem of that name. 

 In addition, he also produced excellent por- 

 traits of his father, of Watts and of Kipling. 



BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON (1849- 

 ), a well-known American author who has 

 written many popular novels and a brilliant 

 story for children, Little Lord Fauntleroy, pub- 

 lished in 1886. The hero, a beautiful boy with 

 long, fair curls, 

 whose mother 

 kept him dressed 

 in velvet suits, , v 

 with daintyMjV 1 

 blouse and wide , v * 

 collar, at once 

 became the most 

 popular child 

 character in fic- 

 tion. His man- 

 ner of dress gave 

 a new term to 

 children's cloth- 

 ing, and "Faun- 

 tleroy suits" be- 

 came as popular as the book itself. The story 

 was dramatized, and for years was played 

 throughout the United States and Canada. 

 Every child actor of the period who was so 

 fortunate as to possess long curls became a 

 stage Lord Fauntleroy. 



Frances Hodgson was born in Manchester, 

 England, but America claims her as one of its 

 novelists, for she has lived in the United States, 

 with the exception of trips to Europe, since 

 1865. In 1873 she married Dr. L. M. Burnett, 

 and since that time has used Burnett as a 

 part of her pen name. She was divorced from 

 Dr. Burnett in 1898, and two years later mar- 

 ried Dr. Stephen Townsend, who has assisted 

 her in some of her dramatic writing. 



Surly Tim's Trouble, published in Scribner's 

 Magazine in 1872, brought her to public no- 

 tice; five years later she wrote That Lass o' 

 Lowrie's, a strong and vivid story of life in 

 the English mining districts and with this 

 book her fame was established. Then followed 

 one novel after another in quick succession. 

 Among the most noteworthy of these are 

 Haworth's; A Lady of Quality, one of her most 

 striking and dramatic stories; A Fair Barba- 

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rian; Editha's Burglar; The Shuttle, based on 

 the international marriage question ; The Dawn 

 oj a To-morrow, a story of the good wrought by 

 a little waif of the slums; The Secret Garden, 

 and T. Tembarom. In the last, one of the 

 best-liked American novels of recent years, 

 humor and pathos are delightfully blended as 

 the author tells the experiences of an inter- 

 esting young newspaper reporter and the sur- 

 prising change in his fortunes. 



Among Mrs. Burnett's books for children, 

 Sara Crewe probably ranks next to Lord 

 Fauntleroy in popularity. A recent story, 

 Racketty-Packetty House, was dramatized and 

 played in New York and Chicago by a cast 

 composed entirely of children. A Lady of 

 Quality and The Dawn of a To-morrow have 

 also been dramatized, and in the latter Miss 

 Eleanor Robson, playing the part of the slum 

 waif named Glad, enjoyed one of the greatest 

 successes of her career. B.M.W. 



BURNHAM, burn' am, DANIEL HUDSON (1846- 

 1912), an American architect whose name is 

 connected especially with the development of 

 the modern skyscraper and with the movement 

 for the beautifying of the great cities. He was 

 born in Henderson, N. Y., and was educated 

 in Chicago and in Massachusetts. He estab- 

 lished himself in Chicago in 1872, soon after 

 its great fire,, and the firm of which he was 

 the head began to make a new sky line for the 

 city that rose from its ruins to become the 

 fourth city of the world. Among the Chicago 

 buildings which Burnham designed were the 

 Masonic Temple, for years the highest build- 

 ing in the city, the Great Northern Hotel, the 

 Railway Exchange and the Field department 

 store. The famous Flatiron building, a land- 

 mark of New York City, and the handsome 

 Selfridge department store in London, are also 

 products of his genius. 



In 1893 Burnham became the architect for 

 the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 

 His work there revealed a richness of imagina- 

 tion and an appreciation of beauty that gave 

 him a world reputation, and he was called 

 upon by various cities to suggest ideas for 

 their improvement. Together with Saint 

 Gaudens, Frederick Olmsted, Jr., C. F. McKim 

 and other eminent artists, he laid the plans for 

 the beautifying of the national capital, the 

 artistic Union Station in that city being en- 

 tirely his own design. The "Chicago Plan," 

 now being carried out, and destined in time 

 to make Chicago one of the finest cities 

 in the. world, was one of his last creations. 



