1898. Eighteen illustrations. Halsey, a journalist, who joined the staff of the New York Times as foreign editor and writer of book reviews. He was literary editor of the Times, and assumed charge of the Times Saturday review of books and art when that department was formed. The authors whose homes are featured in this volume include: Richard Henry Stoddard; John Burroughs; Henry van Dyke; Frank R. Stockton; Hamilton W. Mabie; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Dean Howells; Paul Leicester Ford; John Fiske; George W. Cable; Joaquin Miller; Edmund Clarence Stedman; Thomas Nelson Page; F. Hopkinson Smith; Donald G. Mitchell; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; George E. Woodberry; Andrew Carnegie; Brander Matthews; John Kendrick Bangs; Henry M. Alden; and Ernest Seton-Thompson. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.