New-York tribune., 1904-10-03

blending together agreeably history and ethnooRv
and hction and poetry. As long this board stays
The library teaches by exhibits also. II viii have
Tor instance an exhibit OF the making OF cloth In
huge case there viii be. first. a specimen of raw
carded into loose rope as thick as the thumb
then spun into a thread then woven into cloth
and. finally. OF the cloth completely finished Ac-
c9inEanyng this exhibit there Will be a narrative
OF al me processes through which the wool passes
But II is not for Instruction only that children's
Iake he 4I pscs of Sg5 They are not to
To encourage reading-to inculcate the love OF
rary aftes a @ braTr sg ssa q m the e, ,1 eldgen d
an ne literary taste Of children" she went on. is
read children Ik tb ba Cl'i tl ish9rant and ana 9n
f,ry tales OF tn brothers Grimm ndS S ~ M Hans sIs
andersen. They like the Gospel stories OF Tolstoy
gontes du Lundi' They like Lambs Tales from
shakespeare, killings jungle Books Lew.s car
he richer more highly educated class tend to ike
= si,Dpos II ~ prisligTt, fb. P8aks neiIer
writer's. said tho Librarian. that makes the mt
primitive appeai~tha, is vagae PETaSt DO to9 og
know what ! mean2'
Just .an then little boy said:
Want a q story In rhyme called Sohrab and
N..T1 :7L I'm -ail you eel me where IN hEd it2"
mere IS a compliment to Matthew Arnold 80 said
The LIBRARIAN after the boy had departed with his
criticisms that sohrab and pa Rus5gm R35S m nan a al Il the +,
has blood and tears IN it, '''' 40 -
". Io cni!aLea - e Ike sad books
Ahaerseas fairy tales horribly sad "f'ha Sca
-Halq, = ne TN Soldier. The Ice Maider'-those
t!e children Of the poor-the little Russian IeJys
the Italians the and daughters OF street
sWeep'Ts and Ddcarriers- children love them
- 80 1a4'@ are our most popular books. We
mand. ~ 90 t'- ~
Among the poets IongfeIlov-. with .FIiawatha'
ssas lrst foys Ike. IN poetry. battle lyrics best
then poems about brave rides. the ride OF Paul
S:.a poems Three fishers went sailing out into the
" est. The Raven .Annabel Lee The Blessed
Dainosei. The Nav Queen-those are popular
girls poems.
The favorite authors with the average boys to-
day arc Henty and Stratsmeyer Horatio AlEer and
OuEeT Optic are also popular with boys. but we
don't tolerate either OF those writers here.
The girls Ike Miss Oicott Miss Blanchard and
Miss Deland
Boys take good care OF books but they insis,
on writing criticisms IL them The criticisms
brief ana frank They seem - be intended a
guide % tire next reader Here. for Instance
and the librarian showed. the iyleaf of Howard
Pyles Wonder Clock these words. written in
',DOan.t waist your time hear. This book IS no
n Kiplings first Jungle Book was written:
out Of sight
The Arabian Nights Entertainments" had IN II:
This Is all right; ] have read that's book three
A Henty volume had: a good book: dandy
The librarian said that The remarks Of these
them we're true enough 10 be well worth retaining.
Girls. now she said. don't write I'm books
boys do Girls write o. little personal matters.
She took up a volume Of Miss Blanchard.s that
an assistant had been cleansing on blank page
Sarah J5nes. Molly sewelI May croft IS mean
That is the Of thing" said the librarian,
that we may expect from girls.