Daily national Democrat., 1859-05-01
The City Library.

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The advantages to be enjoyed by the citl-
zens of Marysville from the institution oi the
City Library, may not be so generally known
as they should The fact that there Is col
/ lection of upwards of two thousand printed
works in the city, to which free access is Of
fered to every citizen, ought certainly to at
[ tract n considerable degree of attention. 1t
Is nevertheless fact that by far the larger
norton Of the intelligent population of Ma
rvsyille do not visit the Library at all. Why
is this? We attribute it to ignorance of the
laws and regulations of the institution. In
order to dissipate this ignorance, we would
state what ought to be generally known, but
seems not to be. that every citizen of Marys-
Vile has right to take books from the City
Ii rary, free of charge. 1t costs no one any
thing to enjoy all the advantages of the in
stitution. 1t is true that in order to take
books from the Library it is necessary to de
posit 50 with the Librarian but this sum Is
merely security that the books will be re
turned and that they will not be injured. As
long as this sum remains on deposit, the de
positor has the right to draw volumes from
the Library, and whenever he desires to cease
bis visits he has right to receive back his
money.
A very considerable portion of the citizens
of Marysville have availed themselves OF the
opportunity for reading thus afforded, but
the majority as yet have not. They should
do so by all means Certoinly it is cheaper
to read books for nothing than to buy them,
and all the standard works, at least, will be
found in the Library.
1t is provided that the city shall add Ger
tain number of volumes every year to those
already ON hand, and thus the first class
works of all the modern authors, as they
come upon the stage, will be added to the
existing collection. 1t will not be long,
therefore, before every standard work of mo-
dern as well as ancient times will be contain
ed in the Marysville Library, and, without
expense or annoyance in looking up books,
every reader in the city can obtain whatever
of literature or science he desires.
For the interest of the people, therefore,
and not of the Library-for it in any event
will be sustained-we would call the atten-
tion of the public to the fact that the institu-
ton filings wide its doors to all the reading
community Poetry and Romance, History |
and Science, all that is glorious in the past
and commanding in the present, invite your
steps thitherward The demigods of the old |
en- davsare here eInbalmed and immortalized. |
The mighty ones of the past speak to you
through those silent, but eloquent and cleo
-ric, pages The scenes and deeds of other
lines are here epitomized, and you have but
o turn the leaves ofrecorded Time to live and
breathe in the midst of all that is wonderful
md enhancing in the unsurpassable days of
he Long Ago No need of the trumpet of
he resurrection no need of the mystic spells
f the grey bearded wizard, to arouse from
heir age-long sleep the giants of the mould
ring years that are gone. In the walls of
he silent room they stand before you, con-
lred up ty the potent magic OF the lettered
age No need of stately and formal intro
uctions to the great men of the existing age
Without fear or perturbation you commune
With them here. Here, too, the forms Of I
beauty, those that are living and those that
re dust, the loved and gifted ones, the he
ngs of angelic mould, with their far brows
If Parian purity, and their snowy arms and
vondrous, witching eyes that thrill with re
treated life whatever they look upon-these
100 are here; for Art has seized them with
is ravishment and imprisoned them in its
arms. Immortality shall claim them.
But language fails us on IA theme like this.
W no can measure the vastness of the interest
that dwells in these printed or these pictured
Of the dead past or the living pre-
sent None, none.