The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-25
FOR RURAL LIBRARIES
Two Excellent Lists of Books
Are Recommended.
The First List viii Cost $50 and S23 Will
Buy Books on the SuppIimen.
tary Lis.

TIE state HISTORICAL society and the State
Superintendent of Schools to prepare a
list of books suitable for the Rural Lib
raries authorized by the Legislature of
1901, made its report.
The committee was composed of Messrs
I. T.. Toon, of Raleigh; Geo. A. Grimsley
of Greensboro; d. H. Hill, of Raleigh; E.
p. Moses, of Raleigh; b. f. Sedd. of Wake
Forest, and j. /. Foust, of Goldsboro
These gentlemen were appointed nearly
three months ago and have been diligent
in their work. The final completion Of
the laborious task is due to. Profs Hill
and Moses, who have succeeded in arrang-
ing two lists, one for a library costing
$2o.91 and supplementary library to cost
$2295, transportation charges not included.
The first list contains the names OF
about 80 books. the second about so. The
first is intended to make complete $50
library and with the second to make a
library worth $53. If so desired books from
one list can be substituted on the other,
but the lists as given out represent the
combined work of educators who have
given time and thought to the selection of
an ideal library which will come within
The following are the books recon-
mended with the price of each book:
Andrews: Stories Mother Nature Told
Her Children, 45c.; Kelly: Short Stories
of Our Sly Neighbors, tic; Gatty: Para
blss from Nature, 15c.; Buckley Fairy
land of Science, 1Sc.; Long: Ways OK
Wood Folk, 45c; Long: Wilderness Ways,
43c.; Bergen Glimpses at the Plant
Of he Do
mans, 53c.; Guerber: Story of the Chosen
People, 53c.; Guerber: Story of the Thir-
teeE Colonies, 55c.; Pratt: Legends of Red
Children, 26c; Eggleston's: Great Ameri-
cans for Little Americans 35c.; Eggles-
tons: Strange Stories from History. 36c;
Baldwin's: Fifty Famous Stories Retold.
Bic; Greasy: Decisive Battles of the
World, Soc; Dickens: Childs History of
England, SOC. Romance of French His
tory, 63c.; Romance of English History.
63c.; Plutarch's Lives, 39c; Franklin's
Autobiography, 1Sc.; Abbott: Alfred the
Great, &c; ABBOTT: Caesar, &c; Abbott.
Napoleon, 22c,; Abbott: Frederick the
Great, &c; Milton: Great Winter Stories,
30c.; Chaucer: Great Winter Stories Soc
Scudder Life of Washington, &c.; Haw-
thorne: Biographical Stories, 23c.; Will
hanson: Life of Lee, pc. Williamson:
Life OF Jackson, Soc. Peele Lives of Dis
tinguished North Carolnians, $1.10; Pal
grave: Treasury of English Song. 42c.;
Weber: Southern Poets, dc. Songs and
Stories, 12c.; Poe (Astor edition), 30c
Evangelinc, 16c.; Miles Standish 22c
Enoch Arden, 16c.; Lady Of the Lake, 1Sc.;
Lays or Ancient Rome, 1Sc.; Sir Launfal,
&c; Hiawatha, 1Sc; Tennyson (Astor)
Size; Shakespeare: AS You Like 1t. 22c !;
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, 22c ,
Aesops Fables, 20c; Anderson: Fairy
Tales, Zoe. Grimm: Fairy Tales (com-
plete), 25c.; Hawthorne: Wonder Book
16c.; Bulfnch: Age of Fable, 25c.; Alice
in Wonderland, 25c. Thro' a Looking
Glass, 25c.; Lang's Fairy Books, (four
numbers), (Burk), $1.44; Kingsley: Greek
Heroes, 1Sc.; Firth: Stories Of Old Greece
"a. Peabody: Old Greek Folk Stories, 23c !;
Flanagan: Stories of Morse Gods and
Heroes 22c.; Child Life Reader. No. 2
(MacMillan) CSC; Baldwin,: Old Stories Of
the East, 40c. Baldwin: Old Greek
Stories, 39c. Swiss Family Robinson,
30c.; Robinson Crusoe, 30c.; Arabian
Nights, 30c.; Ivanhoe, 31kc.; David Cop
perfield, 25c.; Mill on the Floss. 30c; Vicar
Of Wakefield 1Sc.; Tom Brown at Rugby.
30c.; Hawthorne: Tangewood Tales. Csc :;
Sketch Book, Soc; Henty: With Lee in
Virginia, Soc; Henty: Boy Knight. 3Oc
Henry Esmond, 36c.; Scottish Chiefs. 25c.
Henry Esmonds, 36c; Scottish Chiefs 25c:
Harold 36c.; Treasure Island 25c.: Pill
grims Progress, &c. Gullivers Travels.
BIC; Birds Christmas Carol 3Oc Dana.
Two Years Before the Mast 36c.; Taylors;
Views Afioat 40c. Ballou Footprints.
60c.; Stevenson: Travels With Donkey.
&C.; Du Chaillu: The Gorilla Country.
60c.; Davis: Our English Cousins, roc.
Shaw: Big People and Little People, &c;
Green: Short History Of English People,
Soc. Total cost, 5000.
The supplementary list is as follows:
Dana: Plants and Their Children, SIC;
thompson: '-'' Animals | Have known.
sl.2O; Davis: Oour English Cousins. 7gc.
Guebcr: Story of the Greeks, 53c. Eggles-
ton: American War Ballads. 94c. Foster:
Story of the Bible, &C.; Smyth: How We
Got Our Bible, SIC. Spurgeon: John
PloGghmans Talks 1Sc; Drummond:
Greatest Kings in the World 1885,; Milton:
L'Allegro, etc, 25c; Kipling: Barrack
Room Ballads, 25c.; Allen: Colu Clouts
Calendar, &c; John Halifax, 25c; Beside
the Bonnie Brier Bush, 24c. King of the
Golden River, 15c. Young Marooners, $50.
Sesame and Lilies, 1Sc. Rob and His
Friends, 1Sc.; Black Beauty, zoe; Beauti-
f1l joe %" Little Women, 9Oc.; Little
Men, 90c.; Old Fashoned Girl. 90c.: The
Wide, Wide World, 36c; Queechy. sec:
Tie Lamplighter, 25c.; In the Golden
Days, 25c; Donovan, 25c.: We Two 25c
English Orphans, zoe; Bow of Orange
Ribbon, 2ic.; Captain January, 3Oc;
Arabian Nights, soc; Erling the Bold,
zoe; Curry: Civil History Confederate
States, 79c. Curry: Southern States of
American Union, &c. Poe: Poems CAS-
tori, 3Oc.; Tales From Costa Romanorum,
&c. Prince of the House OF David, 18c
Little Lord Fauntleroy, 75c. Two Little
Confederates, 90c.; Story of a Piece of
Coal, 26c; Locusts and Wild Honey, roc.
Gods and Heroes, 35c.; Stories of Old Eng
lish Poetry, 5fc.; Story of Ulysses. 35c.;
Classic Stories of Little Ones, 31c.
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