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expressed completely his many-sided talent 

 the ability to write by turns the quaint, the 

 grotesque, the farcical, the sentimental and the 

 pathetic. It was often unexpectedly varied. 



In -the midst of his journalistic work he 

 found time to write the exquisite poems of 

 childhood that are especially associated with 

 his name. These have been published under 

 the titles With Trumpet and Drum and Poems 

 of Childhood. A Little Book of Western 

 Verse and A Little Book of Profitable Tales 

 represent his finest literary productions. His 

 classical tastes are revealed in his translations 

 of the poet Horace, entitled Echoes from the 

 Sabine Farm, and in a volume of essays, The 

 Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. 



The custom of holding Eugene Field exer- 

 cises and entertainments in the schools is 

 growing in favor both in America and in Eng- 

 land. The Eugene Field Book contains repre- 

 sentative poems of the gifted author, and many 

 interesting facts about his life and personality. 

 It is designed to assist teachers who wish to 

 prepare Eugene Field programs. 



This poet of tender fancy and whimsical 

 humor has written some of the most beautiful 

 lullabies and cradle songs in American litera- 

 ture. A favorite among these is the Norse 

 Lullaby, two stanzas of which follow: 



The sky is dark and the hills are white 

 As the storm-king speeds from the north 



to-night, 



And this is the song the storm-king sings, 

 As over the world his cloak he flings : 



"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep" ; 

 He rustles his wings and gruffly sings : 



"Sleep, little one, sleep." 



On yonder mountain-side a vine 

 Clings to the foot of a mother pine ; 

 The tree bends over the trembling thing, 

 And only the vine can hear her sing : 



"Sleep, little one, sleep ; 

 What shall you fear when I am here? 



Sleep, little one, sleep." 



At an Allied Bazaar in Chicago in January, 

 1917, for the benefit of Europe's war sufferers, 

 the original manuscript of Little Boy Blue sold 

 at auction for $2,400. B.M.W. 



FIELD, MARSHALL (1835-1906), a great 

 American merchant, founder of the largest 

 department store in the world and of one of 

 the greatest wholesale dry goods establish- 

 ments. He was born at Conway, Mass., and 

 received an academy education. At the age 

 of seventeen he began business life as a clerk 

 in a dry-goods store at Pittsfield, Mass., re- 

 moving to Chicago in 1856. Four years later 

 he became senior partner of the firm of dry- 



goods merchants which in 1865 consisted of 

 Marshall Field, Potter Palmer and L. Z. Leiter. 

 His partners having retired in 1881, Field be- 

 came head of the firm, known thereafter as 

 Marshall Field & Company, with wholesale 

 and retail establishments. The retail depart- 

 ment store, which occupies an entire block, 

 with an additional building, or "store for men," 

 in the center of the merchandising district of 

 Chicago, surpasses any other store of its kind 

 in the world, both in size and in equipment. 

 Mr. Field once told an audience of young 

 men they would be successful if they were 

 right in their conclusions fifty-one per cent of 

 the time; he was almost unerring in his own 

 decisions, and this, coupled with an early deter- 

 mination in his career to give good values for 

 the prices he charged, may be considered the 

 keynote of his success. 



The bulk of Field's great fortune of from 

 $120,000,000 to $150,000,000, largely invested in 

 choice real estate, was left in trust for his two 

 grandsons. About $8,000,000 was willed to the 

 Field Colunlbian Museum, of which he was 

 the founder. See FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 



FIELD COLUM'BIAN MUSEUM. In 1894, 

 at the close of the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, held in Chicago, Marshall Field, one of 

 the leading merchants of that city, gave 

 $1,000,000 for the founding of a museum of 

 natural history, to be called the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum. Material which had been on 

 exhibition during the Exposition was acquired 

 by gift and purchase, and the Fine Arts build- 

 ing of the Exposition, situated on the Exposi- 

 tion site in Jackson Park, was secured as a 

 temporary home for the museum. When Mr. 

 Field died, in 1906, he bequeathed the institu- 

 tion $4,000,000 for the erection of a permanent 

 building, and $4,000,000 as an endowment fund. 

 In 1915 work was begun on this new home, a 

 site having been secured on the shore of Lake 

 Michigan, in the vicinity of Twelfth Street, 

 near Chicago's great business center. 



Much of the original material of the mu- 

 seum has been rearranged or discarded. At 

 the present time the museum is divided into 

 these departments are complete and repre- 

 ogy and zoology, and its study collections in 

 these departments are complete and repre- 

 sentative. The results of various scientific 

 expeditions sent to different parts of the world 

 are published from time to time, and each year 

 two courses of free lectures are given. Among 

 the important features of the museum are 

 departmental laboratories, a library of about 



