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all of the second week of September
as the guest of the American section
of that marvellous International ex-
hibition. Since the fourteenth CEN
tury Leipsig has been celebrating
twice year, in unique fashion. its
output of books, though in it's first
years manuscripts and prints, to-
gether with fabrics and embroideries,
We're as important as the volumes.
Since the famous Nizhni Novgorod of
Russia collapsed in 1914 the fair at the
mid-German city has taken on d SUI
preme Importance. This book fair is
the most colorful of fetes in that the
stalls are quaint reproductions of
long ago, with d background OF old
prints which bring to mind the holy
Roman empire, the stirring days of
the religious wars, with books piled
high in the most picturesque fashion.
The American section will include
vast number of books which are non
fiction and which have been regarded
as permanent contributions to the sub
jects which they treat, and in this divi-
sion, too. there is a distinct SAVIOR of
this country, with splendid views of
the Rockies, of the bookish parts of
big cities, like Boston, New York.
Philadelphia, with views of the Con-
gressional Library, of the great library
of Mr.. Huntington in Pasadena. Calf
and several of the most imposing of
Carnegie libraries. Few visitors TO
Europe. especially Americans, are
missing the Leipsig book fair
Mr.. A. w. Burchard has purcha sed
the splendid mansion which the late
Henry p. Dawson erected at the cor
- Do IL
street, New York. and though bust
ness is creeping up very subtly, he
has pluckily announced that he will
make it his home and stick it out for
10 years at least. Mr.. Dawson was q
pioneer in this part of Park avenue,
which is locally known as Lenox Hill.
and it was his example which inspired
Arthur Curtiss James to build his
wonderful residence there, and also
influence Harold I. Pratt, George
Blumenthal, Harvey D. Gibson and
Mrs William Sloane, now Mrs. Henry
White. Mr.. Dawson spent exactly
half the year%in his New York resi-
dence, and his neighbors, as a rule, did
the same. Mrs. Dawson has, however,
since her bereavement passed the en-
tire year in her fine country place at
Peacocks Point, in the Glen Cove sec.
tion of Long Island. Mr.. Pratt is
rarely away from his fine place ad-
joining Meadow Brook Club. and Mrs.
White has placed her home on the
market, after keeping it closed for
several Winters. The Arthur Curtiss
Jameses spend so much time abroad
that they are among those who talk
of selling their Lenox Hill property.
Young Marshall Field has been rent
ing the Dawson property while he
built a fine town house about 20
streets higher up than the one he
leased. Mr.. Burchard is determined
to try to re-establish the permanent
Winter vogue of this delightful Sec
ton of Gotham, once a fairyland. from
November until May for those who
delighted in social functions, and
when the mansion glittered with
lights and flowers all through the day
and night.
The Colonial Danes, who have Just
completed a memorable visit to Eng
land as the guests of the SulgRave
Manor Institution, have materially aid.
ed the plans of certain literati to cele-
brate the centenary of Washington
Irving's great classic, "The Life of