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                      _THE BOOK OF THE HOMELESS_




                            [Illustration:

                            THE BOOK OF THE
                               HOMELESS

                      (_Le Livre des Sans-Foyer_)

                               EDITED BY
                             EDITH WHARTON

                          _New York & London
                              MDCCCCXVI_
                                   ]




                                  THE

                         BOOK OF THE HOMELESS

                      (_LE LIVRE DES SANS-FOYER_)

                        EDITED BY EDITH WHARTON

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                 _Original Articles in Verse and Prose
     Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings_

                            [Illustration]

                           THE BOOK IS SOLD
         FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AMERICAN HOSTELS FOR REFUGEES
                     (WITH THE FOYER FRANCO-BELGE)
           AND OF THE CHILDREN OF FLANDERS RESCUE COMMITTEE

                               NEW YORK
                       _CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS_
                               MDCCCCXVI




              COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

         D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON, U. S. A.




LETTRE DU GÉNÉRAL JOFFRE


_Armées de l’Est_               RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
_Le Commandant en Chef_

_Au Grand Quartier Général, le 18 Août, 1915_

_Les Etats-Unis d’Amérique n’ont pas oublié que la première page de