Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-07
ADDITIONS To
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Latest Fiction and Several
Valuable Reference Works
Acquired
MAJ. PALEN GIVES BRITANNICA
Children's Room Made Possible
by Gift of Postmaster Ed
mund c. Burke.

Ndiilsltu Arizona, is deIlSltfuI
book which has just been placed upon
the shelves of the Public Library.
One chapter tells Of the Army Days"
in Santa Fe, the memory of which
fingers with many of the old timers
in this city who persist that there
have been and can be no days like
those when epaulets ruled society in
this capital.
On the pay shelf there were placed
last evening seven of the latest produc-
tions of leading novelists. There is
| The Visioning," by Susan Gaspell,
an ambitious and earnest effort to
tell convincngly the story of the
awakening OF a fine-natured American
girl to the real things of life.
| Then there is The Consul" by
Richard Harding Davis, a book OF
only some sixty pages but written.
with a purpose and with more to it
| than is found in some of Davis novels
that cover 800 pages.
'The Colonel's Story by Mrs.
Roger A. Pryor, is an old-fashioned
story but very interesting and even as
exciting as is Owen Wister's Mem
bers of the Family" another western
| story added to an already choice col
| lection of fiction that has sought its
color in the West.
while Caroline Was Growing" by
| Josephine Daskan Bacon, is sure to
interest young and old, for while it
deals with young folks. yet, in it,
parents and older sisters and bro
theirs will find much to delight and to
ponder.
whats His Name? is by popular
George Barr McCutcheon and the
story is sure to create merriment in
every household that it enters.
"The Prodigal Judge" by Vaughan
Kester, is probably the most enter
tanning as we'll as the bulkiest of the
lot 1t is character stduy that re-
veals one of the most striking and
yet loveliest characters in recent fic-
ton.
Miss Gibbie Gault," it is only
necessary to say that it is by Kate
Langley Bosher, the author of MARY
lCary," in order to create an instant
! demand.
These books are on the five cent
fiction shelf. from which those who
are eager to keep up with the best of
irecent literary effort, especially in
fiction may take out volume by
paying a nickel. When book has
been taken out, a sufficient number
tof times to pay the cost, it is placed
on the free shelf and the proceeds
are taken to purchase new book for
the shelf. In that manner, about half
a dozen volumes of the latest fiction
selected after careful study of book
reviews, are placed on the library
ishelves each month.
! The latest edition of who's Who's
has lately been added to the reference
library. Major R. ]. Palen has pre-
sented to the library complete set
of the Encyclopedia Egitannica, an
addition that had been much desired
but was too expensive for the Lib
rary.
The work of cataloguing the vol.
umes of the Library, between 1000
and 1000, is nearing completion and
will add much to the availability OF
the library which is rich not only in
fiction but also in history, biography
and other branches of literature.
Immediately upon the completion OF
the cataloguing, the children's read
ing room, made possible through the
generosity of Postmaster Edward C.
Burke, will be furnished and stocked
with Juvenile literature.