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gress, or the number Of murders com
mitted In Chicago last year, or Presi'
dent Roosevelt's speech in San Fran
cinso, II IL the attendants business TO
know Just what book or newspaper or
magazine contains 1t and get 1t for
him at once. He must not send the
inquirer TO an encyclopedia; for the
reader has already looked there or
course, library workers are not ex-
pected TO be omInIsclent; but the near.
er they approximate to this the more
promising is their outlook.
II would be incorrect to say that
there are regular steps OF advance
ment year by year; but generally
speaking, after a year as halfattond'
ant. your boy may become full at
tendant, at $50 a month, providing
vacancy has occurred. then, in anoth'
or year, third assistant, at SEQ: then
second assistant ut $50 TO $50; thon
| first assistant ut 500.
Before he goes on up to first assist
| mt, however, he must have acquired
what might be known as q full IL
brary education, which means that he
must be able to answer substantially
| the following specimen questions,
taken from an entrance examination
to one of the leading library schools:
Intentional nationality and century
and characterize briefly an important
work by ten OF the following: Tasso,
Marlowe, lbsen, Maurice Hewlett lie.
Sage, Balzac Sir Francis Bacon, Mon
taignc, Sir Thomas Mallory, Leasing,
Walter Pater. Tame Swinburne, Ian.
dor. James bryce.
State briefly what you know Of the
literary work Of the following; Saint,
Reuve, Turgcnicn, Dante Gabriel Ro-
settI, Heinc Thomas DeQuincy.
Write an account of the poets and
poetry of England AT the end OF tho
eighteenth and the beginning of the
nineteenth centuries.
Name five important writer's Of m
cient Greece, and specify in what de,
partment each is famous. OF ancient
| Rome.
Describe Conly about five lines EACH
the character Of the following THE
Faerlc Quconc" The Rubaiyat
"ldylls Of the King
Name Ave of the greatest American
essnyists; characterize briefly the III
erary work OF each. and mention the
title Of their greatest works.
Name two famous allegories; three
famous histories of tho United States
Ave great world epics; two famoui
satires FIVE children's classics.
Write a criticism Of one of the fol
lowing; Thomas Carlyle, Victor Hugo
Robert Browning
Then followed other questions or
the Donkhobors. radium, Henry Clay
the Hauseatic league. Pestalozzi, etc.
and reading In German and French.
One thing that enables your boy e
do this is that he Ia encouraged by hi
superiors to read good literature dur
ing every moment he can spare from
his work. and he should also atten'
night school, and absorb everything
possible that he can concerning stand
ard and other literature. He mus
also have a good reading knowledge
Of French and German, and he will
find Il to his advantage II he acquire
other languages. He must know HOY
to analyze and index now books
whether in his own or in anothe
language. In the New York publ
library, for example. from $4,000 {
} 10000 cards month are added I
the index, and It may be necessary I
. have as many as 20 ca,ds on one &c
: ume to cover the contents adequately
; He must know the shelves where ne'
) books should be placed.
, Your boy also must know the In
portant characteristics OF new w
., umes that are issued, and be able {
r forecast the probable popular deman
1 for them Considering that there ar
3 10000 new volumes published In III
e world every year, and that tho 1000
e Libraries Of the United States hay
( 1OOOO0.0O0 volumes in them the ma
& nitude of this task may appear a
Q pRlling: but the nearer your boy a
/ proximates to II the better librarla
he will be. 1t is up to him to MAX
e good as in everything else, and
/. has ahead OF him the important pos
r ton OF librarian in q large city at
n salary of from $4,000 to $1,000 yea
k or even that OF librarian of congress
|. who draws $4,000. Far more impor
., ant than the salary, however, is Il
II honor and comfort and mental dove
c. opment and general satisfaction to
IT obtained In his calling, which is pro
& ably not excelled in any branch
r llfework.
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