ption of that foundation of the library which
caused Mr. Morgan to engage her services, she has purchased nearly
every book and manuscript it contains.

Another branch of the collectors' art that engaged Miss Greene's
attention was the clever forgery, a business in itself. She even went
so far as to buy more than one specimen, thus learning by actual
handling and examination to distinguish the spurious from the real.
Now she knows the difference at a glance. She maintains there is even
a difference in the smell Mr. Morgan bought nothing himself without
consulting her; if they were on opposite sides of the world he used
the cable.

Naturally Miss Greene to-day enjoys the entree to that select and
jealously guarded inner circle of authorities, who despise the
amateur, but who recognize this American girl, who has worked as hard
as a day laborer, as "one of them." But she maintains that if she had
not thoroughly equipped herself in the first place not even the great
advantages she enjoyed as Mr. Morgan's librarian could have given her
the peculiar position she now enjoys, a position that is known to few
of the people she plays about with in her leisure hours.

She has adopted the mottoes of the two contemporaries she has most
admired: Mr. Morgan's "Onward and Upward" and Sarah Bernhardt's "Quand
Meme."

IV

HONORE WILLSIE

Honore Willsie, who comes of fine old New England stock, although she
looks like a Burne-Jones and would have made a furore in London in the
Eighties, was brought up in the idea that an American woman should
fit herself for self-support no matter what her birth and conditions.
Her mother, although the daughter of a rich man, was brought up on the
same principles, and taught school until she married. All her friends,
no matter how well-off, made themselves useful and earned money.

Therefore, Mrs. Willsie was thoroughly imbued while a very young girl
with the economic ideal, although her mother had planted with equal
thoroughness the principle that it was every woman's primary duty to
marry and have a family.

Mrs. Willsie was educated at Madison, Wisconsin, beginning with the
public schools and graduating from the University. She married
immediately after leaving college, and, encouraged by her husband, a
scientist, and as hard a student as herself, she began to write. Her
first story followed the usual course; it was refused by every
magazine to which she sent it; but, undiscouraged, she