The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-22
THE LIBRARY REPORT,
Many BOOKS GIVEN
GENEROUS DONATIONS HAVE
REEN MADE TO THE LlnRARY
SINGH THE LAST REPORT
WAS MADE.

SINCE The last report the library
has received some very fine books.
both as gifts and as purchases. To
the generous donors the thanks OF
the reading public and the library
management is extended.
MIR. Boyles, the author of the
Spirit Trail" has given an auto
graphed copy of his latest book to
the library. This will supplement
the copies already in circulation.
Mrs. Jacquemai has Just donated
-four books:-'Wounded Name,'
King; Spy of the Rebellion" Pink
erton: War in Cuba" Queseda;
Bride of Lammermoor," Scott; Six
volumes Of especial interest to South
Dakotans are the gift of Mrs. Moore:
The Province and the State" Good
speed. Another book of history is
the gift of Mrs. North: War In
South Africa" Harding.
One of the most costly books in
the Library recently came into its
possession as a gift from the Round
table Club. The volume is beautiful.
ly gotten out, and we'll arranged, and
will prove a most useful book fol-
the art student, being as comprehen.
sive as its name would indicate
Fine Arts"
Recent purchases received at the
Library are as ADMINISTRATIONS
Cardigan, Chambers; Adventures Of
Sherlock Holmes, Doyle; Call Of the
Wild, London; Red Rock, Page;
Plum Tree, Phillips; Conquest OF
Canaan, Harrington; Golden House
Warner; Little Journeys in the
World; Their Pilgrimage, Warner.
Juvenile fiction - Mixed Pickles;
Heidi, Syri; Uncle Toms Cabin
Economics - Municipal Onership
Darwin.
science-Bird neighbors, Double.
day.
Literature-As We Were Saying
Warner; Being a Boy, Warner; NJ,
Summer in a Garden, Warner; rela.
ton of Literature to Life, Warner.
Travel-In the Levant, Warner;
In the Wilderness, Warner; My Win.
ter on the Nile; Warner; Roundabout,
Journey, Warner; Saunterings, War.
ner; Studies in the South and West
Warner; Russia and Reform, Pares.
Juvenile literature-Blue Fair,
Book, Lang Famous Voyages anl
Explorers. Bolton; Score of Famou:
Composers, Dole.
Biography - Robert Browning
Kenyon; Washington Irving, War.
ner. Mrs. Winsor and Miss ReiG
have made donations of old maya.
zines which have helped to complete
files.
During May sixty-one books of lit.
erature were taken out and ifty-twe
books Of history were drawn; the
children remain loyal to their ole
favorites; drawing out sixteen fair,
tales and twenty-seven books @
travel. The percent Of books of non.
fiction circulated as compared will
the total circulation. is increasing
the growth has been a gradual an,
healthy one from thirty-flve percen,
in March to forty-three percent i,
May.
Fifty years ago this spring tn,
War Of the rebellion started an,
special interest attaches to this sub
ject now. The magazines are givinf
special articles and, the St. Paul Pho
neer Press has a daily article trac
ing the progress from day to da,
These articles with a series O
wal time photographs, supplement
the books on that period of Ameri.
can history. Some of the most in
teresting books on the subject arr
as follows-Drum-beat of the M
ton, Coffin; Freedom Triumphant
Coffin; Marching to Victory. Coffin;
Redeeming the. republic, Coffin;
Civil War from a Southern Stand.
point, Garrett and HALEY; American
Conflict, Greeley; Campfire and cot.
ton-field, Knox; Civil War, nationa.
View, Thorpe.
Librarian.