The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-12
TO YOUNG READERS.

Form home libraries. No matter
how few or small the books are to com.
mence with, they will make begin
ing, and that once made, you will won
der at Its growth. Don't let your
books be scattered through every room
in the house. If you haven't shelves,
make them. They need not Le OF
black walnut, and they " i'll hold books
If they are not polished. It's poor
sort of boy that cannot knock together
half dozen boards that will answer
such purpose.
And now suppose that you have
made your shell, es, or bought them, or
have them already at hand, and have
brought together all the books which
you can lay claim to, big and little, i'm
portant and unimportant, school books
and all, how shall the yet vacant space
be filledp
Make it rule, in the first place, to
put nothing in but what is good-no
dime novels, pirate stories, or milk
and-water trash by popular series"
authors. One genuine good book is
worth solid cord of such. Get some.
thing that lasts; something that you
can take up again and again with
pleasure; something that teaches.w lille
it amuses.
Let us make few suggestions. OF
all the books published, we know of
nothing better to base home library
upon than the several volumes of the
Wide Awake Pleasure Book. It's con-
tents cover wider range of subjects
than any other publication ofthe kind we
know of, and are made up of contribu-
tons from the very highest literary tai
ent in England and America, all writ
ten expressly for its pages and lavishly
illustrated by the best artists. Each
number is a perfect treasure house.
The stories are bright, breezy and
healthy, and the poetry is of the same
character. The presence of this set of
books in a family would exert an influ-
ence for good not 10 be lightly esti-
mated. They are clearly printed and
beautifully bound.
Then add the two volumes of Poets
Homes, and the two companion vol
umes of Our American Artists, four
books without which no household
library is possibly completed
Find place then for the issues in
the Spare Minute Thoughts that
Breathe, Might of Right, Cheerful
Words and True Manliness, with the
volumes that are to come. In the line
of history there are the six volumes by
Miss Yonge, and the new series Just
begun of Lothrop's Library of Enter
tanning History. Add to these Eyes
Right and Four Feet, Wings, and Fins,
for lovers of natural history; Mrs. Lii
lies Story of English Literature;
Mrs. Pearson's Gutenberg, or the Art
of Printing, and Hopkins Waits and
Their Authors. Let the girls, if there
are any in the family, add, as they can,
the "Pansy" books, Ella Farman's
Cooking Club, White Hand and An
ma Maybe, and Julia A. Eastman's Sc
ries of girls stories, while the boys
should not forget Good-for- Nothing
Polly, the Out-of-School-Sc and
Mr.. Rand's Pushing Ahead and Bark
Cabin on Kearsarge. And then for fill
ling out the shelves for the little ones,
no library would be complete without
Clara Doty Bates Classics of Baby
land, Pansy's Our Darlings, and Ba-
by's Portfolio. A new idea is set forth
in pictures for Language Lessons,
collection of beautiful pictures, to be
nsed as subjects for stories in homes
and schools. Each of the twenty-four
pictures is printed on heavy cardboard,
six by seven and one half inches, and
contains in itself the materials for a
story, to be told by the little pupil.
Many of these pictures are handsome
enough to frame. Besides these there
is an immense variety of picture and
story books, ranging in price from ten
cents to dollar.
We might 60 on almost without linn
it, but with these suggestions for be-
ginning, we leave the subject to the
consideration of the great army of
young readers for whom they are in
tended. All these volumes will be
found included in the single list of d.
Lothrop IL Co.