The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-04-25

Iinss, suited to constant usage. You
lean many times buy books much
lcheapar than The prices 10 the a. L.
a. but you can always trust Its
Judgment as u equality In both phys
Teal aud mental make up of books.
| Books for Girls and Women
Clubs. paper 30, bound s1.00. The
annotations and prices are very
helpful. It's author, Mr.. Geo. lies,
Is q scholar and biographer of ma
tional repute.
For children's books we have a
number of lists that we constantly
refer to. Our favorite is: List of
books used in graded reading of the
Buffalo Public Schools. - Buffalo
Pub. Lib, price 10 cents. This was
compiled after a close study of the
circulation in the juvenile dept. of
the Public Library of Buffalo. 1t is
made up of books that children love,
that are good. The publishers and
prices are given. and this is such
help! Last summer it was out of
lprint, but they may have it again
now.
Another free list is: High School
Readings, annotated; also List
of Books for Township Libraries
These are published yearly by the
Wisconsin Library Commission,
Madison, Wis. Isn't it grand that
this state compels public tax money
for public libraries to be spent
wisely?
1.-THE Pittsburg, Pa, Public Lii
brary Monthly Bulletin will help
you in selecting ephemeral books;
il a book Is not added to the Carne-
gle at Pittsburg, Librarians say 1t is
not worth buying. Subscription
price Is cents year.
Last but not least, the Publishers
Trade List-annual, will save you a
world of trouble. 1t consists of the
catalogues of all the leading pub
fishers Of America bound into one
book. Once in two years is often
enough to buy it. Perhaps you can
get your bookstore man to give you
his from last year. The price Is 81.
If you subscribe before July LIST for
the new one, which comes out that
month, you can get it for $I.o0.
Send to Publishers Weekly, 1896
Broadway, New York.
In ordering, when possible, select
your publisher yourself. The jobber |
who fills your order and gives you |
Hurst, Montgomery Ward, DonnO-
hue & Henneberry, AItemns, Mon
arch Book Co. books instead of
Houghton, Century, Appleton, Har-
per, Scribner, CHM, Heath, Amer
lean Book Company, etc, can, OF
course, underbid such jobbers as Ba-
ker & Taylor, of New York, who
kno what public libraries ought to
buy and are buying. Insist that
your orders be sent in one shipment.
We usually type our orders in trip
licate, sending one to Mcclure, one
to Scribner, and one to Baker IL
Taylor. The lowest bidder on our
selected publishers gets the orders. !
And as to your question in regard
to Johnson's Encyclopedia. We like |
it as to contents very much. After |
the genuine Britannica $4,000 in |
cheapest binding) we believe it to be
the finest encyclopedia in the Eng
lish language. You notice that the
articles are signed by experts. The
scientific articles and articles on
countries are eminently good.
Tourists like the articles on coun-
tries. 1t is all up-to-date. The
cloth binding Is not as strong as 1t
binding with the half-morocco Cen
fury Dictionary, 800. The binding
Is not buckram, which Is a coarse
linen cloth stiffened with glue or
varnish. The binding 10 brown
cotton cloth of medium weight. 1t
Is not even a silk finished cloth.
would advise you to buy it in q
stronger binding. The books are
unusually tall, two inches thick and
not firm. The inside is ideal.
If / can serve you further i shall
be glad to do so. I would like to
help you escape some of the gross
est plumbers which we made in our
three years life.
ELIZABETH H. POTTER.