New Britain herald., 1926-12-06
LIBRARY CHANGES
 AID 10 VISITORS
Crowded Conditions in Reference
 Department Eliminated

Through a encouragement of col iections at the library the large room at the left of the main en- trance will now be used for study and reference. By making this change it is hoped that the former crowded conditions can be overcome, .hus giving more quiet for the seri- JUS student.
 In this room there is being held
 he annual exhibition of outstand-
 ng books which have been publish
 d for adults during the year.
 Those whose taste is for biography will find on the tables the volume by Don Seitz on Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune. Those with interest in football will turn with enthusiasm to life of Walter Camp by Powel. Bishop Will liam Montgomery Brown expounds his life theories in My Heresy, the Autobiography of an Idea.'
 The letters of William James, edited by his son Henry James are now published, two volumes in one, and this with the letters of Will liam Roscoe Thayer, edited by Charles Hagen should be of special interest.
 Charles w. Eliot; The Man and His Beliefs, edited with biographical study by William Allan Nelson, president of Smith college, is of very recent appearance, having had the approval of President Eliot for posthumous publication.
 Abraham Yarmoinsky presents life story of Turgenev the only con- plete biography of the great Rus sian ever written, and Gamaliel Bradford is represented in his keen study of Darwin.
 Those who are interested in travel will find much to take them far afield. The thrilling epic of Mt. Everest by Younghusband, records which finally cost the lives of two of the leaders of that great expedition. Observations and much politics figure in Nicholas Roosevelts volume on the Philippine, and Pa- draic Colum brings fact and fancy into play in his alluring Road Around Ireland" E. V. Lucas has the happy faculty of writing vivid travel books and "Wanderings In Rome his latest, seems to have all of ha oh n one in Paris. Aldous Huxley took an intellectual holiday in India, Burma, Malaga, the Pacific and America, and pictured his observations in Jesting Pilate. Lost London is a de- scription of landmarks which have disappeared, pictured, and often in color. by J. Crowther, and described by F. Beresford Chancellor. A Chinese Mirror by Florence Avs cough, with delightful drawings by Lucille Douglas has chapters on '"The Chinese Idea of a Garden" and Symbolism of the Purple Forbidden City, New York--not so little and not so old, presents in an unusual manner much that is not well known about the great metropolis. Herbert Adams Gibbons has a volume on Ports of France with original draw ings by Giovanni Petrina.
 In poetry there IS small volume of selected poems of Edith Thomas edited with a Memoir by Jessie R. Rittenhouse. Theodore Maynard has compiled the book of modern Catho- lie verse fittingly dedicated to Will fred 'Meynell. There are volumes of literary criticism on Edwin Arling- ton Robinson by Redman, and a study of Swinburne by Welby.
 The exhibition is particularly rich in fine books on varied art subjects. A striking volume on Domestice Architecture of the Early American Republic by Howard Major with ex- cellent pictures representing houses of the period, in all parts of the country will attract students as we'll as the layman. The well known authority on matters of decorative art Nancy McClelland has just fin ished another book Practical Book of Decorative al-Treatments. Gateways and doorways of Charles ton. South Carolina, in the 18th and 18th centuries gives much interest ing architectural detail of that famous city. Charles Bulfnch, archi- tect and citizen, b, Charles A. Plac, is a particularly significant book Two volumes of the Century library of American antiques-those on