The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-21
NEW BOOKS FOR
PUBLIC LIBRARY
ORDER WAS RECENTLY PLACED
FOR $140o WORTH AND THEY
ARE NOW NEARLY ALL ON THE
SHELVES.

ton a short time ago placed an order for
sl4o0 worth of books for the Public LII
brary. The first to come in were some
hundreds of works of new fiction and 5u-
venile literature, and these have been in
steady demand ever since they were cata-
logued.
The more solid literature and the books
of reference are now coming in, and list
of those which are already on the shelves
is appended below. The books which are
here listed represent only a portion of
those already ordered, and the book COM
mittee has directions to expend $500 more
In added orders.
For the benefit of those who are skep-
teal on the subject of the appreciation
and use of a free public library by the
people of Birmingham, 1t is stated that in
the seven weeks since the opening of the
library free to the public there have been
nearly 1900 citizens who have become reg
istered borrowers of the institution; there
is a daily attendance In the reading room
of over GO; the reference workers can
scarcely be served, and the daily circu-
lation of volumes has increased from
16 to It's during the past two months.
Birmingham, Its appears. has reading
public, and 1t needed only modern meth
DDS and up-to-date books to fully estab-
lish the fact Among the books already
received are the following:
Encyclopaedia of Political Science. Po-
litical Economy and United States His
tory Lalor.
.History of the American People,"
Woodrow Wilson.
."Techno- Chemical Recipe Book"
Brannt.
Medieval Europe" Emerton.
"statesman's Year Book, 1907 Kettle.
Poetry and Truth" Goethe.
1.-THE Browning Cyclopaedia" Berdoe.
Handy Book of American Authors"
Peet.
.'Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible"
Strong.
development of Modern Europe" Rob
inson & Beard.
readings in English History" Cheney
Index to Poetry and REGULATIONS"
Granger.
who Wrote TIP Wheeler.
manual of Historical Literature"
Adams.
New Liberty of Poetry and Song"
Bryant.
producer Gas and Gas Producers"
Wyer.
Dictionary of Statistics" Mulhall.
Initials and Pseudonyms, Gushing.
.'Poole's Index to Periodical Literature"
seven volumes. This indexes all the we'll
known periodicals published in the United
States and Great Britain back to Janu-
airy 1. 1902. for 1os years.
The Birmingham Library Is rich In mag
azine files, and this index makes all the
material in them available for reference.
STORY of My Life" Keller.
Napoleon" Watson.
Dictionary of American politics"
Brown & Strauss.
New Encyclopaedia of Social Reform"
Bliss
scientific American Cyclopaedia of Re-
ceipts, Notes and Queries" Hopkins
THE Mineral Industry During 1908"
Ingalls,.
Holy Days and Holidays" Deems
Dictionary of Music and Musicians"
Grove.
''aarper's Book of Facts
concordance to Shakespeare Bart
lett.
Dickens Dictionary" Pierce.
American Anthology" Stedman.
"cyclopaedi of Practical Quotations"
Hoyt
Poems of American History" Steven
son.
scientific side-Lights,' Fernald.
Life and Letters Huxley.
Bellies, Beaux and Brains of the CO.'S"
DeLeon.
Religion and Medicine" Worcester.
"F-onouncing Biographical Diction-
ary," Iippincott
"A woman's Hardy Garden" Ely.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
Brewer
Steel" Hartford
1.-TWO Centuries of Costume in Amer
ica." Earle.
Life of Lee" Williamson.
Life of Jackson" Williamson.
''Half-Hours in Southern History"
Hall.
Dictionary of Authors" Allibone.
Book of Days" Chambers.
Biographical Dictionary" Chambers.
Dictionary of English Synonyms"
Souls.
who's Who in England
New International Encyclopedias"
southern Poets" Painter.