The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
WELL SUPPLIED BY
 BOOKS ON DRAMA Public Library Now Offers a
 Fine Selection
A LIST OF NEW BOOKS
Efforts Are Under Way to Extend the Library Hours So As to Have Heading Room Open During
 the Evening

All who are interested in the drama will be glad to learn that the Birming- ham Public Library now has on it's shelves an invaluable collection of standard crit ical works and much talked of plays which otherwise would not be procurab ble. A number of the plays had to be ordered from abroad and many were bound espe- cially for the library. Others were or dered which are not yet on the market, and still others have been listed and are only waiting for the "far off divine event of a sufficient book fund to be ordered, The best of modern plays are rarely to be found on the book market, and the library offers opportunity for their read ing and study which will not be neg lected
 The Library association acknowledges it's indebtedness to "The Masaueraders, ]" who supplied the only fund s11s.TD for literature on the drama which has yet been donated to the library.
 Among the modern plays which are in- eluded in the collection are the complete works of Henrik Ibsen and an attractive list of the plays of Clyde Fitch and Sir Arthur W. Pinero, which are not ob- tainable at any local book store. Some idea of the value of the collection may be gained from the following list:
 The Drama It's Law and It's Tech nique, Woodbridge; An Essay on Comedy, Meredith; Plays of Our Forefathers, Types of Tragic Drama, Vaughan; Dra- matists of Today. E. E. Hale; Tragic Tor pta and Playfellows, Osman Edwards; lcono- clasts, Huneker; The Drama, Henry lrv- ing: The Title Mart, Winston Churchill, and the following by Clyde Fitch: The Climbers, The Girl With the Green Eyes. The Truth. Nathan Hale. Barbara Friet- chic, The Stubbornness of Geraldine, Beau Brummel, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
 The Goddess of Reason, Mary Johnston Mater, Percy Mackaye; The Canterbury Pilgrims, Percy Mackaye; The Aztec God, G. L. Raymond; Dante and Collected Verse, G. L. Raymond The House of Rimmon, Van Dyke; The Charm, and Other Drawing Room Plays, Besant; The Tyranny of Tears, Chambers. The Bo- hemians. cowley; Plays, John Galswor- thy; Representative English Comedies. ed- ited by Charles Mills Gayley; The Serv- ant in the House, Kennedy The Winter feaast, Kennedy; Dramatic Works, Ben Jonson; Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Charles Lamb; Dramatic Scenes and Characters. edited by Stoddard & Lin ton; Dramatic Works, Bulwer; Dramatic Works, Christopher Marlowe; Everyman, edited by Montrose Moses; Faust. edited by Stephen Phillips and J. c. Carr.
 Stephen Phillips Herod, Nero, Paolo and Francesca, The Sin of David and Ulysses
 Sir Arthur W. Plnero's The Benefit of the Doubt, Ills House in Order, Iris, Let ty, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, The Princess and the Butterfly, The School mistress, The l'rofiigate. The Amazons The Cabinet Minister, The Times, Lady Bountiful The " eaker Sex, In Chancery, The Second Mrs. Tanaueray, Sweet Lav- endar, The Rocket, Dandy Dick, The Hobby Horse A Wife Without a Smile, The Gay Lord Quex, The Magistrate The Thunderbolt. Trelawny of the Wells
 English Masques, Herbert Arthur Evans; Dramatic Works, Sheridan; Shakespeare Predecessors in the Eng fish Drama, John A. Symonds; The Hour glass, William Butler Yeates; The Melt irg Pot Zangwill; shakespeares complete Works, editions of Rolfe. Hudson and Furness; Shakespearean Tragedy, Brad ley; Is Shakespeare Dead? Clemens; h. troduction of Study of Shakespeare, Hi ram Corson; Human Life in Shakespeare, Henry Giles: Characters of Shakespeare Plays, Hazlitt; Characteristics of Women, Mrs. Jameson; Shakespeare's Heroines, Mrs. Jameson; Shakespeare and His Crit ics. c. F. Johnson; A Life of William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, Richard Green Moul- ton; Shakespeare the Boy, Rolfe; Shake speariana; The Critics vs. Shakespeare. F. A. Smith; The Shakespearen Drama, Snider: Art Edition of Shakespeare's Most Popular Dramas.
 Cato, Addison; Walker, London, Barrie Faust Craylor edtion), Goethe; Faust commentaries on). Snider; Dramatic Works, Leasing; Nathan Wise, Lessing Complete Dramatic Works, Schiller; John the Baptist. Roses, The Joy of Living and Mazda, Sudermann; Complete Works. Jbsen; French Dramatists, Brander Mat thews; Dramatic Works, Racine; Dra- matic Works, voltaire; L'Aiglon, Rost- and; The Romancers, Rostand: Duty, Sar- dou; Children of the Sun, The Snug Cit izen, Summer Folk and A Nights Lodg- ing, Maxim Gorkl.
 Desired Change in Hours
 Plans have for some time been on foot to extend the time during which the read ing rooms of the library are open. It is hoped that the staff of the librarians as- sistants may be increased in order that the reading rooms may be kept open at night and during the afternoon on Sum day. The working hours of many work ing people are about the same as those during which the library Is open, and many are thus denied it's benefits entire ly. An effort will be made to provide ele- yator service in the city hall for night hours and for Sunday afternoons, as the library is regarded as quite inaccessible without it.
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