The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18

do you know that for 50 you car obtain
for your community or school the use OF
fifty books for four or SIX months"
This. in brief. Is what the Missouri Fed,
Grafton OF Women's Clubs offers TO the
towns and villages Of the State.
For application blanks. catalogues anc
full particulars. address Mrs. Frederick NJ
Crunden. secretary, 1855 L.aclede avenue, ST
| Louis. Mo"
This announcement means much to those
communities which are without Il public Ii
brary and in which study clubs and reading
circles are organized only to die in a sea-
son. Here Is the form of application re
quired by the federation
9TH undersigned. citizens of -. here
by apply for the loan OF Travelling Library
No. -. subject to the regulations Of the
Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs, re
Iating to travelling libraries.
We agree to take good care of and cir
culate. in SO far as we feel justified in our
our request. We will forward same under
your direction in four months from date of
receipt.
Enclosed please find money order for 50
TO cover cost of transportation To and from
distributing points"
signatures of two or more residents of
town
Two dollars for the use OF fifty volumes
for four months! What an opportunity is
here afforded Women's Clubs are under
taking a work that will prove to be fruit
full of the best results. Here is the list of
books in the travelling library No. %. This
library was presented by the Wednesday
Club of st. Louis:
There are twenty-five books for juven-
Hes: Little Women" and jos Boys" by
Miss Alcott; 'Pinocchia's Adventures -
translated by Hezekiah Butterworth:
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by
Lewis Carroll; The Last of the Mohicans,"
by ]. Fenimore Cooper: Stories From Vir-
sI!. by the Reverend \. J. Church; Down
the Lane and Back" by Doctor NJ. c.
Cooke; "Oliver Twist" by Dickens; Stories
of Great Americans for Little Americans"
by Edward Eggleston; Jed; a Boys Adj
ventures in the Army Of '6l-65.' by War
rem Lee Goss: Tom Browns School Days"
and Tom Brown at oxford" by Thomas
Hughes; "Grandfather's Chair" and "A
Wonder Book" by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
In His Name" by Z. E Hale: "Beric. the
Briton." by q. y. Henty; The Book of the
Ocean" by Ernest lngersoll; Some Cur
ious Flyers. Creepers and Swimmers" by
James Johounof: Tales From Shake
speare." by Charles and Mary Lamb; Lit
tie Folks in Feather and Fur" by Olive
Thorne Miller; "Dicky Irving; the Auto
biography of a Bird" by Virginia Sharp
Patterson; Ethics of the Dust" by Rus
kin; Beautiful Joe" by Marshall Saund-
ers; The Arabian Nights Entertainment"
by the Reverend Tyler Townsend; Illus
trated Natural History for Young People"
by J. G. Wood.
History: IT War of independence" by
John Ffske; Social Life in old Virginia, -
by Thomas Nelson Page: Imperial Ger
many" by Sidney Whitman.
Travel: 'GondoIa Days" by T. Hopkin-
son Smith.
Poetry: "Poetical Works of Robert
Burns" and Eugene's Fields Love Songs
OF Childhood"
Art: Wonder Tales From Wagner" by
Anna Alice Chaplin; Roman and Medieval
Art by W. II. Goodyear.
Miscellaneous: "Autocrat Of the Freak
fast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Lit
tie masterpieces by Carlyle. I:uskiu and Aa-
cauley: "Ars Recti Virerdi, by George VIII
liam Curds: Remember the Alamo" by
Amelia f. Barr: "A Window In Thrums."
by J. NJ. Barrie; The Fisher Maid" b.
Bjorrstjorne Bjornson: when Knight
hood Was In Flower" by Charles Maio-;
'silas Mariner" by George Eliot; The sio-
~ of an Untold Love-" by PAU Leicester
Ford; "GueHn." by Blanche Willis HOWARD
rip Van Wrinkle" by Irving; plain Ta'Hs
the Hills" by Kirlirg; John Hall
fax. Gentleman by Miss Mulock; The
Seats OF the Mighty by Gilbert Parker
Henry Esmond," by Thackeray. David
Harum." by Westcott.
Household Economics: Handbook OF San
Information" by Roger s. Tracy.
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