The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-07-24
OUR LIBRARY.

Va VuS iVtu Vi uCAV ulOuJu Will
have been four years since the library
in Bay st. Louis, under the auspices
of the local band Of Kings Daugh-
ters, was established, and tins band
of noble workers have worked along
conscientiously 10 their undertaking.
However, the drawback of the pop
ularity of this particular work Of
theirs ls found in the failure to secure
the interest OF the public, but this
attention nov being partially rivet-
ted to possession, what promises ex-
ceptionally well IS the expansion of
the mission Of this "home Of know
ledge" A few weeks since, after Q
period of indifference, the library
took unto itself new life, the first
step towards this direction arising
from the appointment of as librarian
Miss jessie II. Dilard, school grad
uate, an accomplished musician nd
young girl whose presence wins
favor at all times.
During the hours appointed Mon
day morning one Of the business
days, it was our mission TO visit the
library, see, and then to write about
it. 1t occupies invitingly one Of the
spacious front apartments Of the city
school building, corner Second street
and Carroll aveune and here famed
by the pines, it is at all times pleas
ant to visit. While the extent of the
library's contents is limited, yet the
authors found there are not precious
few neither are they Of the obscured.
What reader of books has perused
Adam Bede or The Mill on the Floss
to not become. saainted with Geo.
Elliott? Here we fad this woman
in several instances at her best, and
fact conspicuous is that no author
Is better represented by greater
number Of volumes. Judge Calvin
deWolf, Of Chicago, who has so gen.
erously donated and one of the libra
rye most ardent friends, donated this
collection in addition to others.
OF the modern novelists, one Of the
local ,fayorites is the author of
At the Mercy Of Tiberius. who has
many admirers ami friends at the
Bay. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson's 8
home at Mobile, when out on Spring.
hill, was the Mecca of visitors and
astute notables. OF her work, we saw
here one, only one volume. Charles
Dickens, the favorite novelist, in
book form is by no means absent,
here abound several of his works,
and he who can enjoy good book
will enjoy the author of Little Dor
rit, Old Curiosity Shop, etc. The
collection is far from being complete.
Books for boys are ready to serve,
ready to please Sianley's and others
tell of adventures, Cooper's Leather
Stocking tales are unfailing to please
the same as others the boy patrons
will find.
On the same shelf with Nine. San
Gene, rests Talmage in one volume.
The authors represented are varied
as for instance few selected at
random: Lord Byron, the poet of
poets; Lord Lytton. Anthony Hope,
Sardou, Doyle, Jerome X. Jerome,
Sir Walter Scott. Rudyard Kipling,
Robert Louis Stevenson, II. Rider
Haggard, Macaulay, Alphonse Dau-
det, Robert IDgersoll, Jules Verne,
the au.hor of Robert Elsemere, Ouida,
Carleton, Longfellow, Washington
irving, G. Meredith, and probably
some twenty more, including stand
ard writer's. Throughout the entire
collection. unless out circulating,
Shakespeare is painfully lacking.
In addition to these works there
are quite number of others in the
French language, and In Spanish
Hugo's Les Miserables. A new and
complete edition Of Chambers En-
cyclopedia as valuable acquisition
is constantly being consulted.
Memoirs Of Mississippi, illustrated
with steel engravings, are most ex-
cellent ornaments to the usefalness Of
the library. From Washington sew
eral agricultural and other reports is
sued by the department Of state are
gwen shelf room. Every book is
covered over with paper, giving a
splendid effect of uniformity, pre-
serving cleanliness and concealing
old backs. Every volume Is relabel-
ed, making convenient when select
ing. In addition to the books, are
all American magazines of the day !.
These are most orderly arranged on
the long reading table, where patrons
non saIaot OF ,,Iaaat,ra f,on, ,h