East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-02-18
LIBRARY SUGGESTIONS
FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE
LIMITED READING TIME.
Selections of Some of the Best
Books and Authors Has Been.
Made by the New York Lii
brary to Assist Busy Readers

IN this day Of busy people who must
limit their reading 10 books which give
value received the umatllla county
library is constantly asked what books
are worth while. In response TO this
question. the librarians cite a list
of thirty-six books, selected BY the New
York Public library not as the 'best'
books, but as books well worth reao.
ing.
Following is the list of title and au'
thorss Kim, Kipling; Return of the
Native. Hardy: Cal of the Wild, Lon
don; Huckleberry Finn, Twain; Tono-
Bungay, Wells: House of Seven Gables
Hawthorne; Rise OF Silas Lapham.
Howells; Tales Poe; Cloister and the
Hearth. Reade. Island nights En-
ohantment, Stevenson: Vanity Fair
Tackeray.
Modern Books Included
! Tale OF Two cities. Dickens; Leaves
OF Grass, WSSitman; Golden Treasury
of Songs and Lyrics; verse, Kipling
The New Poetry. Monroe and Hender-
son; Discovery of America. Fiske;
France and England in North America.
Parkman. History Of the tinted States
from the Compromise OF 1850, Rhodes.
American Commonwealth. Bryce. Life
and Letters OF L6rd Macauley, Treyel-
van; Life OF Benjamin Franklin (Auto-
biography; Life OF johnson. Boswell
Cellini's autobiography, tranlasted BY
Symohs: Mark Twain, Payne; Letters
to His Children. Roosevelt; Walden,
or Life in the Woods, Thoreau; Book
of Naturalist. Hueson: Ahce's Au.
ventures In Wonderland. Carroll: Dis
sertations by Mr.. Dooley, Dunno;
Rudder Grange, stockton. Grahame.
Wind in tho Willows: interpretations
of Literature, Hearn: Emerson's Es-
says; Essays OF Ella, Lamb. and Three
Plays for Puritans, ShNx.
Hundred Popular Books
In connection with the search for
good books, the umatilla library also
gives a list OF the following 100 most
popular books OF fiction for the past
20 years, from 1885 to 1920.
Sienkiewics', QUO Vadis: Maclarens
Beside the Bonnie BrIer Bush; Bar
elay's Rosary; westcott's David Har-
um; Wells Mr.. Brltiing Sees 1t
Through: Majors When Knighthood
Was in Flower: Rice's Mrs Wigs OF
the Cabbage Patch; Churchills Inside
of the Cup, Richard Gravel. The Crisis
1 Coniston. Mr.. Crewes Career. Modern
Chronicle, A Far Country. The Dwell
ing Place of Light. and The Crossing:
Ihanez Four Horsemen Of the. Apo.
! I I
ton; Wisters Virginian; Thompsons
Alice of Old Vfncennes
Porter Is Popular
Streeter's Dere Mable; wrIghts
Winning of Barbara Worth. Aliens
Choir Invisible; Johnston's To Have
and To Hold: Kiplings Days Work;
Wright's Eyes Of the World: Bachei-
ler's Eben Holden; Fox's Little shep.
herd of Kingdom Come Parker's
Right Of Way; Wright's When a Mans
Man; Ford's Janice Meredith; Har-
4 rison's Queed and " WIS Eyes; @. s.
/ Porter's Harvester, Michael O'Ha1Ior-
an, Laddie, A Daughter of the Land
\ Parker's Seats of the Mighty, The
Weavers, and The Judgment House, ,
Tarkington's Seventeen, The Turmoil.
and The Conquest OF Canaan; Bur
nett's Shuttle: Mitchells Hugh Wynne
Fox's Trail of fife Lonesome pine
Thurstons Masducrader Wharton
House Of Mirth: Eleanor Porter's Just
David, Pollyanna, and Poliyanna
Grows Up.
List Is Varied
Kester's Prodfgal Judge; Virgins
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, Rine-
hart's Amazing Tntcrlude and ''Kv:
i Abbott's Molly Make Believe; Wright
Their Yesterdays: Grey's Desert OF
Wheat; Barrie's Sentimental Tommy,
Pages Red Rock: Rices sandy;
Smiths Peter; Connor's Major. Lon
Gon's Call Of the Wild; Hichens' Gar,
den af Allah: Nicholson's House of n
Thousand Candies and The Port Of
Missing Men; Farnols Broad Hign-
way: Deland's Iron Woman. Lanes
katrine: Kings Street Called Straight
The Wild Olive. and The inner shrine.