The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY NOTES.

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The most valuable single collection
the library has received is a large num-
Der of magazines "a recent gift OF Miss
Rache Berry, who, with the assistance
of the librarian, has put them in access
able form. They include seventy-four
bound volumes of the standard periodi-
Gals, as well as several hundred loose
numbers. There is a complete set of the
Att ntic for the last fifteen years, as
well as numbers of Harper's, Scribner's.
Munsey's, McClure's, The Worlds Work,
st. Nicholas, Century and others, which
complete in themselves for the years
they cover, fill many a gap that had ex-
listed in the collections already possess
ed by the library.
The fact is not generally recognized
best of current literature, not only in
the way of fiction, but along other lines.
1t is a duty we owe ourselves to know
current history,-t be familiar with the
events that are happening in the world
and the day of which we are a part. The
newspapers do not give us enough, or at
least what goes to make up their con-
tents is hastily gathered and so con-
fused with inaccuracies that we need
something besides, to digest and sift the
cumbersome and unwieldy mass of facts.
The reviews fill admirably this want.
They are the clearing house for the vast
quantity of crude material accumulated
each month by the army of Jews gather
ers from the four corners of the earth.
The Outlook, is, probably, the best of
these. The Review of Reviews is also
good, and covers a wider scope. In both
of these magazines we find the facts
classified and arranged, and one who
reads one or the other of these publica-
tions conscientiously, cannot be ignor-
ant of the history of his own times.
The more popular magazines, at least
one of them, preferably the Atlantic,
though if one must have illustrations,
some other will serve almost as well,
should also be read. While the others
do not attempt so adequate a transcript
of the daily life of humanity as do the
they will be found to contain
articles of unusual merit and in
.terest, on every day topics. These maya
zines, of course, are read principally for
their fiction, which may usually be de-
upon to be the best that is OBJ
A reference to the tables of
contents for the last few years will dis
close this fact. Many of the most wide
y read books of the last ten years have
first appeared s%erially in the magazines.
One of the most notable of these, though
by no means the best, is Trilby. while
he authors last book, The Marian,
which was, unfortunately, somewhat of
failure, was also offered IN this form.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has had Marcella,
Sir George Tressady, Lady Roses
Daughter, and now her last story, which
S running in Harper's. Miss Johnston's
;hree most successful novels have APP
two in the Atlantic and one in
1arper's, during that time. There is
scarcely an author who counts for any
hing in the realms of literature whose
lame has not appeared in the pages of
me or another of the periodicals that we
,uy on the news stands every month.
This is what makes it necessary for US
O read them, and this is why the back
numbers have so great an interest and
IN hiuh q va1ua.