The Greeley tribune., 1910-03-03

hIStISN Alpi 81 y Is u HpuItC VI just
pride to the community; library
erected and equipped by public SUBJ
scription after great effort by j. Max
Clark and other citizens OF serious
purpose and lofty motives.
Other libraries are being founded
on smaller but no less perfect plans
about the county and ii is an excel
lent commentary on the breadth of
view of those in charge of our rural
schools that the teachers thereof are
expending every effort to place
braries for the benefit of the COM
munities in which they are located.
Whine individual opinion may diff
fer from DR.. Eliot, one OF the first
educators of the country, regarding
the selection of certain books, at
least it is generally admitted that
most OF the books necessary to be
, read We're included by Harvard's re-
tired president in his list And it
does not cost a fortune to get these.
Any small community may readily
raise funds therefor and fortunately
many of them are at this time here
in Weld county.
Ii is generally agreed among our
educators who have expressed them
selves on the subject that the small
but we'll equipped library should in
clude. among the Greeks. Homer.
Herodotus. Aeschylus. Plato and Plu-
tarch among the Romans, Horace
Tacitus and Martial, all of them
translated. No less a person in Amer
lean thought than Ralph Waldo En-
erson has said that what is really
best in any language is translatable.
In the middle ages there are Hal
lam and Robertson's Life of Charles
the Fifth. In England. Ma'let's
Northern Antiquities. Venerable
Bede, Turner and Palgrave. In the
, Elizabethan age there is Hume, then
finally Shakespeare. Spencer. Ra-
, leigh, Bacon. Chapman. Johnson
Ford, Beaumont. Fletcher. Herbert.
/ Milton. Marvel and Dryden. And
besides these Emerson recommends
the autobiographies and table talks
: of great men.
Religious conviction may add TO
or detract from this list which is
here given, not as an individual opin-
! ion but the books which authorities
have selected
! OF course, any library for popular
use must be well equipped with the
best magazines both English and
American, and a choice which ar
| Emerson. Jordan, or an Irving
might make for themselves woult
hardly be delectable for the publ,
use. However, there is no doubt bu
that the books they select shoul.
be included in public library as
basis for books OF lighter weight
The establishment of nearly
score OF small libraries in variou
parts of the county in the past ST
months speaks we'll for the cultur
of our people, and they have only be
gun the work
They are alive to the fact that tn
| young folks in particular are gon
to read and that guide is necessar
in deluge of literary rot. Whic
of the six best sellers" is reall
worthy of a place in any respectab
library and which Of them will muc
outlive the month in which they e:
eel?
The absurd and all too popul:
idea of keeping up with the times
} meaning the absorbing of vast Il
= of well-bonnd, well-illustrated s.
!. called novels which are turned o,
by the score every month, is hard
r compliment to any person.
Il In an ordinary lifetime, spendir
few hours every day in readin
: no man can expect to read mo
than the monumental works in ii
: history OF literature, and the pc
4 son who boasts of keeping up wi
;. the times" and whose tables a
e piled high with the stuff which
]. turned out by the job lot, is to
IL looked upon skeptically.
In an excellent communicate,
2 published in this issue, there is
intelligent treatment of the dram