The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-09
REFERENCE.
How Miss Burdick Prepares
Special Book Lists as
Occasion Demands.
ODD VOLUMES AND WOHAH'S CLUB
Works On Catholic Doctrine
and Church History By
Authors Of That Faith.

4 necessary adjunct to nearly every
e1ub of literary standing from the Wo-
man,s Climb down. Is the Free Pubic
/ Library. with its librarian, Miss Bufoick
1 rsnacialfv at this season of the year
when all the clubs are preparing for the
winter campaign. getting out programmes
with long lists OF reference DOCKS, MISS
Burdick is kept pretty busy Whehess.
such an organization as the ouu
vah,mes or Womanfs Club decides upon q
certain course Of study that clup lHlineu-
lately makes known it's wants TO 'ae
s.hrartan WIN goes to work deep In lists
4 1;tarature history and fiction, select
ing srch books, as, according to ner
,,,dgment- the club will require. Thus are
49, a,uh ists prepared and all RESPONSE
hil,4v 6 the matter lifted from the less
awnsrsanced shoulders Of the programme
committee although of course the com
rntttaa selects these books from an even
larger list. m
Taxing for example the Odd Volume
a-na fnrinted in full in the
.Newss,. where "Recent Literature Is tne
ar,,act ana where every meeting VIII
rrsnr forth two or more books on Inc
| tonic Of the day, a glance will show even
| 4bA casual observer how systematicais
careful has been the SELECTION, Wno' ~
hundreds Of volumes on one suoJecl nes
neon ahfe TO pick out the very pest. 1ho
h ohiect of the odd Volumes IS 10 taAe thsss
hooks write criticisms upon them aho
eban hold an open discussion thereon at
each meeting
.wa susau BART Of our little calendar,
wsxoartsed Mrs. Scudder with pride, at vne
[wornan,s Club meeting, IS due TO tne
/ eforts Of Miss Burdick.' As in the odo
yyol,,,aes so in the Woman's Club, MISS
R,rdick has prepared the lists. only 20
/ snis. ease there are seven departments
educatfou. art. town Improvement, home
| literature. philanthropy and music. each
| witch it's long list Of reference BOOKS. "
III these the Town Improvement list IS
nerhaps the most interesting, because II
10 newer and causes a little surprise. upon
reflection that there are so many books
mon the subject. The list is made up Of
| fourteen Books by the best known sa1thofa-
| ties. one of whom Is q woman. The list
cannrises Sewerage Publication in
America, Baker; 'sCleaning and Sewer
age of Cfties,s Baumelster; eStreet Clean
ingso Waning; ssMunicipai Problems.
| Goadnow: Municipal Home Rule" Good
now, Municipal improvements" Good
llha1e. New York Political Primer
| Ffelde; Municipal Reform in the United
States, Deriin; CITY Government in the
United states,'' Conklings Twentieth
| Century City" Strong: Study of City
Government,s wilcox; Municipal Re-
form Movements Jolman; Municipal
| - Oraak Rrf+ojp - Sham.
Municipal Government in Continental
Europe Shaw.
Attached to the programme of the
Music Department is an equally good list.
comprising several of Krehbiers, Uptonis
and Henderson's works. In the Home
Department list are several works by
| Warning on the sanitary condition Of a
home, besides works on the care of chill
dref,, domestic economy, decorations and
a number of other heads chosen by the
department itself. The Literature De-
time which has chosen. for its years
study, ITALY and the Renaissance" has
in it's reference a number of works on
the subject by Field S~yrnonds,. Paget,
| Oliphant, Anderson and Roscoe. as we'll
as a number of well known works of
fiction, as Last Days of Pompeii, =
Merchant of Venice and 'fQuo Vadis."
This gives but a sample of the work
done for the W5man,s Club alone and
there. are still left several departments
with carefully selected lists OF books, all
Oft which. cam be drawn out of the Ii
braryi on a. borrowers card.
Butsnows Miss Burdick has In her hands
lists to- choose for the Travelling Library,
to be established in. New Jersey. Each
club in the city has been sent a circular
requesting it to make a selection of ten
books. The Woman'ss Club, on receipt Of
tf1iss turned it, Immediately over tor the
Librarian, who has made such a list as
she Thought suitable for the rural dis
tricts to- which this library will be sent.
carefully abstaining from classics or
books of any age and giving the modern
current. works on poular fiction, travel
and history, calculated to interest-th gem
erai public.
Miss Burdick Is ever ready to prepare
SPECIAL lists as occasions demands, and is
also busy just now on a list of unusual
Interest for a. we'll known Catholic club of
this city, It is to- comprise, first, a list
of books ON the doctrine and history of
the Catholic Church, and, second, mis-
cellaneous subjects by Catholic authors.
Such a list is no easy matter to prepare
as there. is absolutely no data to go by.
It depends entirely on reseach, study and
aSgood well stocked memory.