Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-09
PUBLIC LIBRARY
New Books Added-Fifty-eight Vol
umes of First Class Literature on
Subjects of Importance and Cur
rent Fiction.

Fifty-eight new books have lust
been added to the public library. OF
these nineteen are of fiction ano
eight of young peoples fiction, while
the, remaining thirty-one include
books of interest and useful to many
classes of people, some of the books
being of a very practical nature.
Among the latter we find one on
Practical Tree Repair" by Ebert
Peets, and another entitled "Choos-
ing Vocation" by Frank Parson.
Still another book entitled GLOW to
Write Letters" by ]. w. Westlake
should prove of interest to older as
well as young people. For those
planning parties and entertainments,
-tThe Party Book by Fales and
Northend should be interesting, con-
tanning as it does suggestions for
various kinds of entertainments, de-
scribing at length both games and
menus.
For the hurried reader and stu
dent there has been placed in the ref
erence room a small volume entitled
A Handy Book of American Auth
ors" by L. H. Peet. 1t indexes many
contemporary as well as older writ
ers and their productions. Through
the courtesy of Secretary of State,
G. II. Graves, there have also been
placed in the reference room two
large volumes giving the debates and
proceedings of the last Ohio consti-
tutlonal convention and one volume
containing the journal Of the conven-
ton. These books should be of help
to high school debaters and others
interested in studying the various
phazes of present day state and mum
icipa government, such as woman
suffrage, initiative, referendum and
recall, workman's compensation,
child labor legislation, etc.
For the Sunday school worker and
religious student there are two ex-
cellent books, one by DIR. Washing
ton GLADDEN. on HWho Wrote the Bi-
ble?", the other by j. T. Sunderland
under the title "Origin and Charac-
ter of the Bible".
In psychology three books have
been added. One of these is by Pro-
fessor ]. R., Angel, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and is entitled "Chap-
ters From Modern Psychology. The
other two are by the late William
James, perhaps the foremost psychol-
ogist of the past generation. They
are entitled "The Meaning of Truth"
and "Pragmatism".
For the student of Shakespeare
there. is Sidney Lees Shakespeare
and the Modern Stage, and there are
also new complete editions of the
poems of Burns and Shelley.
A very practical book for parents
is that by the noteG boy worker, DIR.
w. B. Forbush, entitled "The Coming
Generation.
There is likewise a very readable
book on evolution, intended especial
ly for popular use and entitled "The
Meaning of Evolutiony,s The author
is s. C. Schmucker. Another book
along the same line but with a prac-
teal application is that by c. B.
Davenport entitled "Heredity in Re
lationl to Eugenics".
Two books on economics are an
Economic History Of the United
States" by E. L. Bogart and "Our
Wasteful Nation" by Rudolf Cronau
There is also History of Com
merce" by Give Day.
For women civic workers there is a
new book by w. H. Allen entitled
"Woman's Part in Government.
In history there has been added the
eighth and latest volume of John Bach
McMaster's excellent History of the
People of the United States. This
brings Professor McMaster's history
to the Civil War period. There is al
so a new book OH China entitled
"China's Story" by W e. Griffis.
For young people there is "The
Story of Our Navy for Young Amer
leans" by w. J. Abbot and a true
story of life among the Indians en-
titled with the Indians in the Rock
les" by ]. w. Shultz. Of other books
added for young people there is an
illustrated Pictures That Every
Child Should Know" by Dolores Ba-
con, and book descriptive of the
organization of Camp Fire Girls, the
girls auxiliary to the Boy Scouts.
A second copy has been added of r.
L. McNaught's christmas Selec-
tions".
The new books in fiction with auth
ors are as follows:
Adult Class
Broken Halo-F. L. Barclay.
Iron Trail-Rex Beach.
T. Tembarom-F. H. Burnett.
Inner Flame-C. l.. Burnham.
Golden Rule Dollivers-Margaret
Cameron.
Hagar-Mary Johnston.
Way Home-Basil King.
Veronica-F. M. Kingsley.
John Barleycorn-Jack London.
Taste of Apples-Jennette Lee.
Westways-S. w. Mitchell.
Otherwise Phyllis-M. Nicholson.
Laddie-G. S. Porter.
Miss JIMMY. E. Richards.
Merrilie Dawes-F. H. Spearman.
Keeper of the Vineyard-C. A
Stanley.
Colds. E. White.
Story of Waitstill Baxter-K. D.
Wiggin.
Young Peoples Class
Texan STAR. A. Altsheler.
Annapolis Second Classman-E. L.
Beach.
Annapolis First Classman-E. l.
| Beach.