The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-13

Before tlllS Was ullQeI ldhei q i1
case was secured by means OF small
contributions on the part OF a dozen
interested friends. The funds for the
first purchase were secured by private
contributions which were supplement-
ed bv a donation for similar amount
by the Mt. Zion society Since then
2 mart of the money that has been
used for purchasing the books that
have been added has been raised by
means of Entertainments.
The practical working of this library
has been most satisfactory to teachers,
pupils and patrons. 1t might be add
ed here that one thing that has add
ed to the successful conduct thereof
has been the fact that each pupil has
all the while been provided with
list Of the books therein. This list
gives each one an opportunity to be-
come acquainted with the books in the
library, and as is suggested by one OF
the number whose answers are quoted
above and mere opportunity OF looking
upon and learning the names of the
best books is oftentimes OF itself a
stimulus to reading. In the distribu-
tion of the books the plan OF having
each child make out list OF the three
numbers that were perferreo and
handing the same in the day before
the books were let out has been fol-
lowed; and there is no thought at this
time of changing this method that has
proven so successful. A special advan-
tage that this method has is that it
not only assists the child III getting ac-
ouainted with the books of the library,
but it also makes it possible for the
children to make more intelligent
comparison of the books that have
been read. And with all due respect
to all the teachers Of the whole teach
ing profession the one shat is likely to
have the gteatest influence upon this
or that child as to the books read is
the pupil who sits next by. The teach
er's greatest opportunity, therefore,
is in getting the first pupils started
right in this matter OF reading. There
is possibly no other phase OF school
work in which the cooperation Of the
parents can be so easily secured.
Without any feeling of egotism
whatever the writer from the expert:
ences mentioned above most heartily
endorses all that has been SaidSn re-
gard to arouSing the interest Of the
children as the first step that is neceS-
sary in establishing library and that
the successful maintenance thereof de-
pends very largely upon the teacher.
LIST OF BOOKS.
The following is the list Of books as
it was sent out with the exception
that good large number Of the books
are here presented in groups:
Aunt Joe Books Co..
Cooper's complete works Q2}.
Abbotts' Biographies I2).
Miscellaneous collection Of books
published by the Educational Publish
ing company, containing quite num-
Der of valuable books of scientific and
historical stories (40).
Flake Frizzle series l6).
Elsie books (s).
Alcott books (4).
Pepper books (4).
Rollo books.
Thackeray's complete books (l5).
Linen books, containing some old
child classics az.
Warmers Worlds Library Of Best
Literature (3O).
Dickens Complete works 500.
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland.
Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard.
Alhambra, The
Arthur, Bonnicastle.
Adam BeGe.
Autobiography of Franklin.
Aunt Polly's Shed Brigade.
Arabian Nights.
BOOTS and Saddles.
Blue Fairey Book, The.
Black Beauty.
Ben Hur.
Beside the Bonny Brier Bush.
Beautiful Joe.
Being Boy.
Boys Of other Countries.
Black Tulip.
Barriers Burned Away.
Boys of Old Monmouth, The.
Birds and Bees.
Boys Froissart, The.
Cathedral Courtship, A.
Colonial Children.
Children of the Cold.
Cyclopedia of Quotations.
Child World.
Captain January.
Cavalier.
Christie's Christmas.
Christee's Old Organ.
Captain Bailey's Heir.
Chambers Encyclopedia.
Defense of Charleston.
Days Of Bruce.
Daisy Chain.
Denslow's Mother Goose.
Don Quixote.
Eric.
Eight Cousins.
Each and ALL
Electrical Boy.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the
Amazon.
Fables and Rhymes.
Folk Story and Verse.
Four Girls at ChatauQua.
Four-Footed Americans.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold.
Fables and Folk Stories.
Father Goose.
Flower Of the Family.
Gay Worthless.
Golden Gossip.
Greece.
Grimm's German Fairy Tales.
Girls Who Became Famous.
Gulliyer'S Travels.
Guardian Angel.
G,1y NaO0erinp