Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-13
Fifth Article.
Our Free Public Library.

| Books of travel possess much of tn,
fascination of the novel, together witt
the additional charm of real persona
experience. More than this, they tel
just what every one ought, and mos
people wish to know concerning the APP
pearance manners and customs of Othel
classes and families of humanity thai
our own, with the peculiarities of the
countries they inhabit, exciting natural
w genuine interest in their history
Parents would do well, therefore, to fos
in their children taste for this kind OF
reading, which will surely intensity the
thirst for knowledge in general. In the
minds of the younger readers, Oliver OPP
tics semi-fctional travel series, "Sham
rock and Thistle, y Red Cross" bikes
and bitches, Sunny Shores, >" " Palace
and Cottage" Cross and Crescent,
down the Rhine and Scenes in
Northern Lands, Bayard Taylor's Boys
of Other Countries" Biart's . Adven.
lures of Young Naturalist, " Kingston
My First Voyage to Southern Seas ,
and "A Voyage Around the World,
Grace GreenwOod's New Life in New
Lands" and many Others of like charac-
ter in our library, will be certain to ex-
cite an interest in the more pretentious
works. The library contains many choice
works in this department, such as AT
kinson's Oriental and Western Siberia,
Prof. and Mrs. Agassiz' Journey in
Brazil" Stewards 'Travels Around the
World" Livingston's Last Journals,
Bayard Taylor's series, Darwin $ Nat
uralist's Voyage Round the World,
Vincent's Land of the White Ele-
phant," Wallace's The Malay Archi-
pelago,' DuChaillu's Adventures in
Equatorial Africa and g The Country
of the Dwarfs," Bakers Ismalia," &C.
Among the later works recently added
are Eugene Schuyler's ''Turkistan," "My
Life on the Plains" by Gen. Gustav,
" Italian Journeys" and Venetian Life, .
by VIM. d. Howells, "A Ride to Khiva,
by Fred Burnaby, Through Persia by
Caravan, by Arthur Arnolds, and From
the Lakes of Killarney" by Henry NJ.
Fields.
In the department of Poetry, there
are now forty-two volumes, including
more or less of the works of Dante,
Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Burns,
Thompson, Pope, Gray, Goldsmith, Os-
sian, Milton, Halleck, Longfellow, Bry-
ant, Jno. G. Holland, Whittier, Mrs.
Browning, SAKE, Bret Harte, Aldrich,
&c. The recent additions are " Flower
and Thorne" by Thos. Bailey Aldrich,
Idyls of the King" by Tennyson,
STORY of Siguard" and :" Earthly Para
disc by William Morris, Thos. Moore S
Poetical Works and Later Poems y
of Alice and Phoebe Carey.
No department of the library will give
more genuine enjoyment or prove more
profitable to the thoughtful mind than
that of Popular Science There certain
ly can be no more elevating and ought
to be no more interesting study than
that of Nature and the laws that gov
ern her. Very many interesting works
in this department, free from the tech
nicalities designed to obscure the wri.
ters meaning in the minds OF general
readers, have lately been produced, a
number of which are accessible upon
our shelves. Among these are Proctor $
Light Science for Leisure Hours and
"Other Worlds than Ours" Tyndalls
Fragments of Science" Figuier's beau
tifully illustrated series including Nam
malta, Human Race, Primitive Man, In
sect World, World Before the Deluge,
Vegetable World, and Reptiles and
Birds, Winchell's Sketches of Crea-
ton" Faraday's Chemistry of Can,
die" Mace's " Servants of the Stomach,
Bates Naturalist on the Amazon,
Rodwells Birth of Chemistry" Gosse's
Evenings at the Microscope" &c. The
Wonder Series (page q of the Cata
logue) will be found exceedingly interest
ing, both to young and old. 1t treats
in separate volumes of the wonders
of vegetation, electricity, thunder and
lightning, optics, the heavens, acoustics
the sun, the moon, water, the bottom OF
the sea, architecture, European Art, and
other subjects. The last additions in
this line are Cummings" Life History Of
Our Planet" Prof. Packard's Half
Hours with Insects" and "The Races
of Men by Oscar Peschel.
]. L. LOOMS.