for the Arts Center, collaborated with the library board and put through all resolutions and programs. By October 1929, Riley and the Art Center committee had appointed all committee members and planned details for the Art Center opening which was held October 28, 1929, in the center's rooms at the Evanston Public Library. Through her work in the Riley Circle, the Drama Club of Evanston and the Evanston Arts Center, Riley galvanized interest in the arts in Evanston. She provided a forum for like minded women to discuss the local arts scene and made the arts come alive in Evanston, a city which today still boasts a vibrant arts scene. Her best known published works are: Songs of the Child World, Lilts and Lyrics, and The Lost Princess Bo-Peep, in collaboration with the composer, Jessie Gaynor (1863–1921). Her best-known lyrics are probably the words to the lullaby entitled "The Slumber Boat" (later also known as "The American Cradle Song"), published in 1898, which she wrote for her own children: Baby's boat the silver moon/Sailing in the sky, Sailing o'er the sea of sleep,/While the clouds go by. [Refrain:] Sail baby, sail,/Out upon that sea Only don't forget to sail/Back again to me. Baby's fishing for a dream,/Fishing near and far, His line a silver moonbeam is,/His bait a silver star. [Repeat Refrain] References 1867 births 1953 deaths American children's writers American lyricists People from Morrison, Illinois Writers from Evanston, Illinois Songwriters from Illinois 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers