Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-04
ediflce, and preparation of the ground, are
well known and appreciated.

edif1ce, and preparation of the ground, ar,
well known and appreciated.
The building is received as sacred
trust, and with the library II contains
will ever be held by the trustees and tbei,
Successors in trust for the citizens Of
Augusta and their friends.
am aware that this Is a fit occasion
for an address to give an appropriate ex
preston Oh our gratitude to the vcneratcd
founder of the library ard to those who
have Literally aided us in carrying cut
his purpose in work so full of promise
of usefulness, but the state of my health
has been such that did not deem 1t pru
dent to undertake 1t, and have imposed
that duty upon one of our associates,
capable of doing justice to the subjec..
who has kindly consented to do what
should have done.
| This classic ediGcc is valuable as Il
work of art. and it is Infinitely more val
| liable for what it contains.
Within it will be found the best
thoughts the intellectual fruit of the
| master minds Of centuries of the ancient
| as we'll as the modern world, expressed in
language we all can understand. thus
enabling us to become the associates OF
the writer's and receive the inspiring in.
iluence of such association
l regard public library rs an eduea
tional institution Of inestmable value.
1t will both add to the knowledge,
and increase the intellectual power Of
those who avail themselves of its proper
use and it will elevate the intellectual
and the moral standard OF every com
munity where one is maintained A word
as to the proper uss of library. Most
emphatically, would say TO the young,
land if thoss who are older shall chance
to notice the advice it will do them no
harm.)
Do not confno your reading too much
to works of fictior. Such reading tends to
weaken the memory, cause unhealthy ex-
element, and some If the works instil
erroneous views OF real life Read
biography, history, poetry, general l;era-
ture, or something else
1t would be good rule never to read
two novels in immediate succession, but.
invariably, after you have finished re sd
ing one, to read carefully different kind
of work before you touch another novel.
do not refer to that impure class If
works that endcavor to make vice attrac.
tive, fo- our trustees will see to it that
such works shall never have q place In
this library.
| have felt "A special interest in this
library ever since Mr.. Lithgow called
upon me and informed me what he in
tended TO do, and requested me to prepare
provision to he put into will, and |
then drew the section for the Lithgow
library and reading room, which he took
and inserted IN the VIII which he himself
prepared
The words reading room" were in
serted for purpose. and hope his purpose
may be carried out, and that newspapers
as well as periodicals will be provided
and the reading loom kept open and
made comfortable and attractive; and
that our young men will make it point
to spend their evenings there In useful
reading.
The generous founder of this library
has well done his part, and others have
literally done theirs and now commend it
To the city, in the hope that 1t will receive
such aid that the whole of the thousand
dollars annual income OF the trust fund
can be used for the purpose of books, and
additions to the library that will make it
a library worthy OF its venerated founder,
and Of the capital of the State.
Mr.. Cornish, who needs no introduction
to any audience in this part Of the country
has kindly consented to address you.
Leslie C. Cornish Esq. in his address
of acceptance and dedication, followed, as
soon as the applause for Mr.. Bradbury