Evening star., 1926-03-27
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY the BookLOper.

generally supposed that education was
| confined to youth, or at least ended
with school days. But it is now com
| ing to be recognized that school in
| Struction and education are not Synon-
| omouS; indeed, that the school at best
| helps to develop the aptitude for edu-
| cation, but certainly does not furnish
a completed education, which must
| later be gained by the individual dur
| ing lifelong effort to become pro-
greSsively educated. A keen and i'm
preSSiye analysis of Education for
Adults" by DIR. Frederick p. Keppel,
president of the Carnegie Corporation,
| Ls the leading article in the April num-
Der of the Yale Review. DIR. Keppel
characteriZeS the students who are in
elementary and secondary schools,
| colleges, universities and technical
schools as professional educational
| soldiers and those who get their edu-
cation in their spare time as the
| militia, the latter a large and impor-
! tant group, almost completely neg
| lected by the educational general staff
with no proper appreciation of thet'
! numbers or quality or of their grow.
| ing Importance in the changing social
| and economic conditions or of their
! normal place in q well rounded ma
] tional life. In this group he includes
hthe students in commercial CORE
! spond9nce schools, those attending
part-time and continuation schools,
| students in university extension
! classes, in Y. NJ. G. A and Y. w. c. A.
| classes and labor colleges, agricultural
| Institutes, etc. He does not overlook
| the Importance of the movies or the
| newspapers and magazines. He con
| cludeS that all in all education for
| adults has now become one Of our ma
! Jor industries" The trouble is not
! that we have no adult education, but
| mat 1t has grown up outside of the
| best educational traditions and so
| lacks proper guidance and control
/ and for the most part is too much
commercialized too predominantly vo-
| cational. without sufficient provision
| Tor consecutive cultural education
| through lack of proper contact be
tween our educational leadership and
/ adult education" Lacking such aca-
| demic leadership, so far as cultural
| education for adults is concerned, Dr.
keppel goes on, ''the museums of art
| and science have developed educa-
| tlonal programs of great interest. Per
| maps most significant Of all. the Amer
| lean public library. the country over
has made for itself a place in educa.
| ton which is unique in the history of
the world. But the reading and study
/ programs Of the libraries useful as
| they are, necessarily miss one great
| element in the scheme of education.
and that is the element Of discussion.
Some way must be found to fit the
| library contribution into the other
parts OF the educational Offering"
! X x X
Or. keppels article. which has been
quoted and summarized in part, is
based on studies made by the investi.
gators of the Carnegie Corporation
| or by agencies to which grants have
peeh made by the corporation. Among
the Iatter IS the American Library
ASSOCIATION, which has a commission
on the library and adult education,
That commission has published sew
eral valuable bulletins giving the re
suits or its findings. but of more in
terest to the general reader is the
series of booklets entitled Reading
With a Purpose" These are read.
ing and study programs" prepared by
authoritative writer's, interestingly
written and each recommending the
six or eight most important books
on the subject covered. Thus far
II titles have been issued Some of
them have already been commented
upon i'll this column. including those
on Biology" by Vernon kellogg, sec
retary of the National Research Coun-
ell, and on Psychology and It's Uses"
by Everett Dean Martin. Some of
the other titles include English Lit
erature," by w. n. G. Carlton; Some
Great American Books" by Dalals
Lore Sharp; Ears to Hear; a Guide
to Music Lovers" by Daniel Gregory
Mason; Conflicts in American Public
Opinion" by William Allen White
l.. l. III.
by Nj V. O'Shea; Life of Christ" by
Rufus NJ. Jones, and Religion in
Everyday Life" by Wilfred 7. Gren-
fell. These booklets each contain
from so to 75 pages, so written as
to form an introduction to the sub
ject and at the same time to arouse
in the reader a desire to carry on by
way of the recommended books,
Less serious than most of his other
novels, also, of course, less Signif1-
cant, is knut Hamsun's recently
translated novel, Rosa" a sequel to
"Benoni." Its humorous treatment of
life in a small Norwegian town will
be better enjoyed by some readers
than the darker pictures of struggle
and tragedy in Hunger" THE
| Growth of the Soil" "Segelfoss Town"
and Children Of the Age" The
story of Rosa" opens in the northern
district of Lofoten, where knut Ham
sun himself lived in his childhood.
Rosa is the daughter of the clergy
man of the neighboring parish to
the trading station of Sirilund, who
has married and left home, but comes
back sometimes to visit and then
comes over to Sirilund. Before her
marriage she has been engaged to
Benoni Hartvigsen, one of the two
owners of Sirilund and all it's vessels
and industries. Her visits to Sirilund
cause HartVigsen to dress more smart
ly and give himself the airs of a gen
tleman, with the result that he inter
ests Rosa married more than he in
terested Rosa single. Her husband,
absent in the south, proves easy to
/ dispose of-Norwegian divorce laws
seem as convenient as those of some
of our States-and soon Rosa has be-
gun life over again. An art student
visiting Hartvigsen and a baroness
contribute to the very simple intrigue.
The description Of the baroness ta-
BILE manners is d sample of the hui
morous realism of the style. 'She
began by picking up something to
clean her nails with. Pastor Barfod,
who was sitting next to her, saw 1t
| and Immediately turned his eyes
away. She stuck her elbow on the
| table when putting anything into her
mouth. When she drank I could
hear the wine gurgling inside her
! from my place across the table. She
cut up her whole helping of meat be.
| fore she began to eat it; when the
| cheese was served noticed time after
| time that she spread more butter on
her bread after she had bitten it; in
deed she spread the butter just where
| her teeth had been-no, never had l
seen such manners in my home. And
after the meal she had little hiccups
and purfed out her cheeks as though
| the food was coming up again" Very
| different manners from those of