The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-27
ID PUBLISH BOOKS
 FOR BLIND PEOPLE Alabama Waging Campaign for Education of Blind OWEN EXPLAINS WORK Many Other States Are Carrying on Successful Campaigns of Like Ma
 ture-Can Send Books
 Through Mails
OWEN EXPLAINS WORK

Montgomery, November 26.-(Special) J. In a development of his campaign to bring about more happiness for the blind people of Alabama, and with the end Ill view of satisfying them with respect to books, pamphlets and newspapers, Dr. Thomas M. Owen, director of the Ala bama department of archives and his- tory. has issued list of books which can be procured for the afflicted. The collection contains books printed in four types. one of which is pretty apt to be understandable by the sightless read CTS.
 Alabama's campaign for the education of it's blind citizens began several years ago, and since that time has been push ing strenuously ahead at rapid rate. In the new list of books which has just been announced are to be found a num- Der of of the classics. In explaining the work that has been started for these afflicted folk, Dr. Owen says:
 There are probably very few people who know that reading for the blind may be had free right here in their own state, The library extension division of the Ala bama state department of archives and history has a collection of books printed in types for the blind for free circulation to any blind resident of Alabama. The collection contains books printed in four types: English braille, New York point, moon and the line type, and includes books of fiction, history, biography and general literature.
 Many states. notably New York, Cal ifornia, Pennsylvania and Iowa, have un- dertalSen most successfully as a part ot the library co ,isson work to supply this sn( .s of readers with read inr 1t is almost necessary that thi one by some kind of co-opera- tj- -lethod as the books in this type aeo too expensive for individual pur- chase.
 Books Carried Through Mails
 By way of aiding in this work the Congress of the United States, by special act, has provided that all reading mat ter for the bind may be carried free through the United States mail. Thus by the United States providing free trans portation and the state supplying the books, reading matter Is within the reach of every blind resident and may be had for the asking
 List of Titles
 English Braille Type-'Ivanhoe," " "Quentin Durward," Stories From Way erly-the Abbott" Forty Lessons in Sing ing '1 Progress, Always Happy, or the Story of Helen <ellar," volume 1 Ban ister, ,""Byron's Poems, ;" Macbeth" vol ume 1 Hamlet" volumes 1, ?, 3 and ] Heroes" Merchant of Venice," volumes 1 and 'Elizabeth;' volumes 1 and 2 Romeo and Juliet"
 New York Point-"Rill From the Town Pump" "Rab and His Friends Fuss in Boots," "Snowbound,' Jack the Giant Killer" lf Line Type-volumes 1 and 2 Flynn Book,". volumes 1, and 8. "Englis Dictionary" Geology for the Blind, Memoirs of Samuel Gridley Howe, Poetry of America; Selections" Con stitution of the United States "Tho Wonders of the Firmament." Fire side Science" "The Aeneid of Virgil, '"Thomas a Kempis, Western Ad- ventures" "A World of Wonders, "Tha hacleray's Four Georges" volume. i and 2 "Mahomet' "The Universa School of Music" volumes 1 and : Heroes and Hero-W orship," volume 1 and Among the Lawmakers, "Clive and Lays of Ancient Rome "Goldsmth," Burns Poems," Sara A1IS thur" "Old Rome and New Italy "Ju- Illus Caesar" volumes 1 and Political Economy" volumes and Brief Biog- raphies of American Presidents,' "Fa- bles,' Two Addresses of Henry Drum mond," Stallker's Life of Christi volumes and 2 "Pilgrims Progress Seven Lamps of Architecture, "Xenophon's AIabasis," Stories from Scottish His tory" Madam How and Lady Why" "Bacon's Essays" Frederick the Great and Peter the Great" Two Little Con federates," Lady of the Lake, ''The Land of the Pyramids Guyot's "Physi- cal Geograph," volumes 1 and 2 Swiss Family Robinson" volumes one and 2 Study of Words" Macbeth Readings from English History" "A History of English Literature "The Fifth Star Reader"