Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-24
STATE HOUSE.
Travelling Libraries for
Summer Visitors.
Many Books Sent Annually
to Maine Resorts.
Go. D, lst Infantry, Elects First
and Second lieutenants.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council,
Wednesday, June IL.

IS being done under supervision of
state Librarian Emery is that OF get
ting ready to supply the demand for
travelling libraries which will come
from the coast towns and the inland
sections Of the State where the sum-
mer visitors flock during the vacation
season. That the libraries are pOpu-
lar in this particular feature Of the
mission which they perform is shown
hy the constantly increasing demand
tor them from year to year, and the
demand the coming season will prob
ably he greater than ever.
The travelling libraries are used in
many cases to supplement the small
town libraries which do not have books
enough of their own to supply the de-
nand and in this way an abundant as
sortinent of reading matter is rendered
available to those who wish to take adj
vantage OF the privilege thus offered.
The number Of these Libraries sent
out by tie State library during the va
cation season is usually 20 or %, and
each library contains 50 volumes of
reading matter of various classes. Ac-
cordinS to the present arrangement
80 of the volumes are devoted to fiction
and the balance are historical, bio
graphical. nature studies, and scien-
tific and miscellaneous works. One
or two volumes are on the subject of
home economies for the housewife, and
there are also Il few volumes of jul
Venile books
block Of five travelling libraries has
already been made up, all of which
will probably go to Old Orchard, and
to give an idea of the class of reading
which the libraries contain the follow
ing list is herewith given:
Birth of the Nation, Mrs. Roger A.
Pryor.
Greater America. Ralph d. Paine
Birds Eye View of American His
tory, Leon C. Prince.
Heroes Of the Navy in America.
Charles Morris.
Long Labrador Trail, Dillon Wal
lace.
Frederick Douglass, Booker Wash
ington.
Business ana Education, Frank A.
Vanderlip.
Making. Of a Newspaper, John L.
Given.
Training of the Human Plant, Luther
Burbank
Three Little Millers Clara D. Pierson.
Eastern Birds Every Child Should
Know. Ntltjc Blanchan
Book Of Vegetables and Garden
Herbs, Allen French.
Four Seasons in the Garden. j.. r.
KOXford.
Roses and How to Grow Them.
Birdcraft, Mabel Osgood Wright
Friendly Stars, Martha Evans Mar
tin.
ono Thousand Simple Soups, Olive
Green.
Book Of Fairy Tales, David Boiasco
and Charles Byrnc.
Donald Barton and the DOings of the
Ajax club, Amos II. Wells.
Victor of Salamis, VIM. s. Davis.
Phantom Wires. Arthur Stringer
Malefactor, T.. Phillips Oppenheim.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky, Eliza Calvert
Hall.
Felicity, Clara f. Laughln
Madame de Treymes, Edith Wharton.
Yelled Lady. f. HopkinsOn Smith.
Running Water. A. f.. W. Mason.
Port of Missing Men, Meredith Mich
olson.
Experiment in Perfection, Marion T.
d. Barton.
Country House. John Galsworthy.
Lady Of the Blue Motor. G.. $. Pater-
noster
Shadow of a Great Rock, VIM. r.
Leighton.
Trimmed Lamp, o. Henry.
Price of Silence, Mrs. NJ. +. NJ
Davis.
Short Cruises. w. w. Jacobs.
In the Cause of Freedom, Arthur w
MarchmOnt.
Long Road, John Oxenham.
Reed Anthony, Cowman, Andy
Adams.
Windfall, Charles EGbert Craddock.
Mystics. Katharine Cecil ThurSton.
Jenifer, Lucy Meacham Thurston.
Prophets Landing. Edwin Asa Dix
Flight of Puss Pandora. Caroline
Fuller.
Roberta and Her Brothers, Alice W.
Bailey.
Pelham and His Friend Tim, Allen
French.
Girls of Pineridge, Charlotte C.
Smith.
Langfofd of the Three Bars, Kate
and Virgil D. Boyles.
d. HoWclls.
Blackie: His Friends and His Enc
mics. Madge A. Bigham.
New Chronicles of Rebecca. Kate
Douglas Wiggin.
The cost of the travelling libraries
to those places which have them is
comparatively nothing, the only charge
being connected Herewith being $3.50,
which pays the transportation each
way, and each town is entitled to the
use of the library for a period of six
months. In many instances where
the libraries are sent to summer re-
sorts the visitors pay the transporta-
ton charges for the three months use.
| thus the townspeople get the six
months service without cost.
The libraries are now sent out in the
| new cases which serve the double
| purpose of packing box and book case.
| The cases are well made. with trunk
| corners. hinged cover with lock and
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