The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-29
THE STATE 1IBRARr4NS, MEET.

President Rooms of storrs College md
 Others.
 The autumn meeting of the Connecti- cut Library association was held in the normal school building, Willimantic, October 27, by invitation of Principal G. r. Phenix. It was the third library event of the week in New England. The first was the funeral of Justin Winsor, an assemblage of men from the great universities and learned societies of the country, and the second the meeting or the Massachusetts Library club, whose membership includes librarians and trustees of libraries in five neighboring states. The noteworthy features of this meeting were an address by Charles Eliot Norton on the choice of books, a choice for the studious few rather than the unlearned many, and critical re- view of the books of the year by ex- perts in different subjects, such as John Graham Brooks on sociology, w. E. Foster of Providence on history, John Richie, secretary of the Appalachian club, on travel and Professor Little of Bowdoin college on reference books.
 The meeting at Willimantic was opened WlIu d SllOlL slooiSSS NA S'NN "NN~ president, Frank B. Gay of the Watkin- son library, summing up the hprafy events of the last few months ana re- ferring to the deaths since the assocla- tion met in May, of Dr. William Flce or Springfield, Dr. J. Hammond Trumpull of Hartford and Justin Winsor, presl- dent of the American Library associa- tion.
 It was followed by a paper on the H. brary association meeting in Phiadel- phia last June and the post conference excursion to the Delaware Water Gap by Miss Mary A. Richardson or the New London public library.
 After some discussion regarding a suggested change in the constitution of the American Library association, James D. Whitney of the Boston public library read paper on "The Journey of the American Librarians in England After the International Conference in 1 July" The paper was full of amusing "reminiscences and graphic descriptions | of the cordial reception which the Li- l brary Association of the United King | dom gave its American brothers and sisters. not only in London, but in Sal isbury, Plymouth, Exeter, Bath, OK ford, Cambridge, Ely, Lincoln, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow. | After little informal discussion Sec | retary Charles D. Hine of the state board of education invited the associa- | tion to visit the library of the normal school.
 l The meeting then adjourned for din- ner at the Hooker house and reassem- bled to listen to a paper by Miss Ellen D. Larned of Thompson on "The Early | Libraries of Windham County" This paper gave a history of the library founded in 1739 in Pomfret, a library | almost entirely of divinity, divided six years later on account of distance into | two parts, one of which remained in Pomfret and Mortlake (Brooklyn), l while the other was taken to Killingly | and Woodstock. At the close of the paper Miss Larned referred gracefully to Miss Mary M. Osgood of Brooklyn who had prepared an account of the Abingdon library.
 Miss Osgood stated that the social | library of Abingdon was founded in | 1793, the young mems library in 1904 and the two, containing five hundred 1 volumes, were united in 1915, before 1 there was a postoffice In Windham l county. The ladies' library was l founded by seventeen girls and one ma tron, who paid three dollars each as en- trance fee and twenty-five cents year i The old record books still exist and a fair idea of the taste of the time may | be formed from lists of books by Han- nah More, Jane Porter, Mrs. Chapone Mrs Sherwood, Mrs. Opie and Miss Edgeworth with anonymous books en titled "A Whisper to a Bride" and ''Wo- man as She Should be-" The libraries were united in 1879 and are now housed in the only library building in Wind ham county, where books of the last 1 century in sheepskin covers from To- cal tannery may still be seen, with the manuscript sermons of the Rev. Walter l Lyon, pastor from 17S1 to 1926, and H. | brarian for a part of that time.
 President B. F. Rooms of Storrs agri cultural college gave an informal tall on Helpful Reading for the Agricul | tural Classes" suggesting Voorhee'! First Principles of Agriculture" Vick' "Home Horticulture" Greiner's "Practi l Cdl II III liCiCi Nfbi'ippC'i
 "Household Economies and "Easies Way in Housekeeping" Virginia Reed
 "Way We Did at Cooking School" Al lens "Story of the Plants" Mills Realm of Nature" Wings Milk anc it's Products" Bailey's Principles 0 | Fruit Growing Roots "A of Be- Culture'' and Cooks Bee Culture" II answer to questions he said that ther' was no good popular book on the hors and recommended as good agriculture and horticultural papers ''The Countr.
 Gentleman" "Rural New Yorker,
 American Agriculturist" and "Gardel
 and Forest"
 A auestion-box demand for restfu
 novels with happy endings brought ou
 a blackboard list of books by Franl
 Stockton, Lucy Ellen Guernsey. Edwar
 Garrett, Emma Marshall, Mrs. Gaskel
 Jean Ingelow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Car
 oline Leslie Field, Hesba Stretton. An
 thony Trollope, Sarah Tyler, Georg
 William Curtis.
 After resolutions upon the death c
 MT. Winsor and a vote of thanks t
 the normal school and librarians o
 Willimantic the meeting adjourned.
 A DISLOCATED HIP.
 Elizur Talmadge was brought to Ney l Haven hospital from Seymour vester