The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-31
400 WORKS OF FICTION
Second Installment of
Those Contained In the
Model Library.
ALL BRANCHES INCLUDED.
The Weightiest and Most Erudite
and the Merriest and
Cleverest.
IL BRANCHES INCLUDED.

JitfcIcSts
The second aud last installmens of the
eight hundred novels included in the
Chicago Fair Model Library of, five thou
SAND voiumes is reprinted herewith from
the library catalogue. The first half WAS
given a few days age IL The JERSEY CITY
NEWS. The list has already attracted
widespread attention, aud it we'll
deserves it. An attempt has been made
TO compress within limited space the pest
of the worlds Fiction. and it cannot but
be admit ed that it has been u highly
successful one. There have been com.
paJauyely few omissions of Importance,
aud Tie reader will find nearly every
novel ,lat has obtained a nanis Tor irself.
Ali branches of story writing have been
fncluaed. with the manifest intention of
snirl & all classes and conditions. Ole
wi | ii III the m~rriest u cleverest OF
chill as stories, u The weightiest aud
most erudite specimens OF The modern
philosophical novel.
Sophie May, Balzac, KiplIng. Mrs.
Humphrey, Ward. Sir Waiter Scout.
Richard Harding Davis, Cervantes. j. NJ.
Barrie. T~nackeray. John Bunyau. Mrs.
Burton Harrisop. Goethe, Jules Warns
ana lawrence Stefne are all housed to-
Rether under one roof, SO 70 SPEAK. 1t Is
Al motley company, to De sure. Dat this IS
a necessity, The student who sneerS at
the presence of this or that writer.
ephemeral or otherwise. should remem
Der that it takes all kind of people To
make a world. a very sim lie and trite
adage this, but Que soon forgotten. and.
in fact. very seldom remsmb sred even NY
the most wise.
A well-selected public library is a little
world In itself. u world Of voiceiess peo-
lie. but with forceful person lfties. As
IL isln the real world so it must be in the
book world. When q mau selects his
irieuds he suits himself. Wnen he sets
out TO select friends for other paople ne
Will get into q peck OF trouble II he
chooses only those whom he himsslf likes.
1t does not follow that q man will like
his friends friends. Indeeit, the opposite
is ostencst the case. ALI this applies to
The selection of books for a private anI
for a public library. The anui0gy is clear
without further eommeut.
The list, which includes over four hun
dred works. follows:
Hetty's Strange History. Mercy Phil
bricks Choice. Nelly's Silver Mine, Ra-
mona-Mrs. II. Fl. Jackson.
Henry of Guise. Huguenot. Mary OF
Burgundy. Phillip Augustus, RicheiisC =
q. +. II. Jsmes.
Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady. Prin-
cess CssamsssImR-Henry JONES.
County Byways. Country Doctor. D sep-
haven, Mate of the Dayiigut-Sar.sn Ofne
Jewett.
RasseIas--Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Primes u Their NsIghbois-Richarj
Malcolm Johnston.
Modem Midas-Maurus Jokai.
Margaret-Sylvester judd.
Castle Daly-Aunie K-ary.
Elm Island Stories-EliJah LelIogg.
Horseshoe Robinson, Swallow Barn
ohn z. Kennedy.
Between the Lines, Colonel's Daughter,
Marionss Faith-Captaln Charles King.
Alton Locke. Here Hypatia. Two
Years Ago, Water Babies, Westward HI,
Yeast-CnarIes Kingsley.
HilIars aud Burious, Recollec .ians of
Godfrey Hauilyn-Heury Kingsley.
Altar in the Forest, In the EAs era Seas.
In the WIlds OF Afric cav. Fl. &. King
stoD.
kipIing.
Lass Fairy Talss-Edouard Lsboulaye.
Cnrisly Carew-MayLsffau Cater wards
Mrs. Hartley.
Uudine. Bnron La Motts-Fouque.
lnShe WIRING PARADISE. Princess NO
body. Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
OnelSea > f1OuSeHOldcF, GFAnla, with
Essex in Irelaud-Hou. Emily Lawless.
In the Cheering.Up Business, Quaker
Girl of Enthusiastically Catherine Lse.
Gil Blas-Alain Rene LIE Sage.
Charles OsMailsy, Harry Lorrequer,
Jack Hinton, Maurice TIerney-Charles
Lever,
Haven Under the HilI-MAry Liuskill.
Knight of the Black Forest-Grnce
Deuio Litchfield.
Little Classics, in eighteen volumes
edited by Rossiter johnson.
Amadls of Gaui-Vasco Lobeira.
Hyperian. KaranauGh and other pieces
Henry W. Longfelow.
Iceland Fisherman. My Brother Yves
PIERS Lott (Juiian Viaud).
The Abandoned Claim-Mrs. Flora H.
Longheld.
Handy Andy. Rory o'More-samu el
Lover.
New Priest of Conception Bay-R. 7.
S. Lowell.
Donovan, We Two-Mrs. Ada Ellen
Bayly (Edna Lyali.)
The Cations. Tue Coming Race, Stcci,
Pausanius, Falkland, Harold. Last bays
of Pompeii. Last of the Barons. s.My
Novel," RIenzi. Strange Story. "What
Will He Do With Itf" Baron Edward
Aulwer-Lytton.
Dear Lady Disdain. Fair Saxon-Justin
MCCARTHY.
Annals If Quiet Neighborhood. Sea,