Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) _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 * * * * * _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 l’Histoire de leur indépendance a été écrite avec un peu de sang français._ _Par leur inépuisable générosité et leur grande sympathie, ils apportent aujourd’hui à la France, qui combat pour sa liberté, l’aide la plus précieuse et le plus puissant réconfort._ J. JOFFRE LETTER FROM GENERAL JOFFRE [TRANSLATION] _Headquarters of the Commander-in-chief of the Armies of the French Republic_ _August 18ᵗʰ 1915_ _The United States of America have never forgotten that the first page of the history of their independence was partly written in French blood._ _Inexhaustibly generous and profoundly sympathetic, these same United States now bring aid and solace to France in the hour of her struggle for liberty._ J. JOFFRE INTRODUCTION