Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-18
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Reading With a Purpose.

Reading With a Purpose.
w YHY rot read with a purpose
~ this Winter and turn to in.
wv tellectual profit the time
that you spend among books
The Public Library ha,
courses in reading which are prepared
for the American Library Association BY
scientists, economists, historians anc
others who are prominent in their fielc
of endeavor. Ask about the Reading
With a Purpose" series at the informa.
ton desk at the central building. or al
any OF the branches. The library ha.
readers advisers who will be glad II
help you follow through with any course
or courses you may select. A complete
list of the reading courses, grouped ac-
cording to subject, follows:
Art.
1T is the glory and good OF Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
OF speaking the truth"
-Browning-The Ring and the Book
7. Ears to Hear: q Guide for Music
Lovers, Daniel Gregory Mason.
IT. Appreciation Of Sculpture, dorado
Taft.
81. Pleasure From Pictures, Henry Tur'
ner Bailey.
%. Architecture. Lewis Mumford.
Biography.
MY advice is to consult the lives Of
other men as we would looking glass
and from thence to fetch examples fol
our own imitation. Terence.
3. Ten Pivotal Figures of History, Am.
brose w. Vernon.
IS. Life of Christ, Rufus NJ. Jones.
Is. Americans From Abroad, Johr
Palmer Gavit.
81. Practice of Politics. Raymond Moley
81. Founders Of the Republic, Claude G
Bowers.
Al. Pivotal Figures of Science, Arthur
E. Bostwick.
AZ. George Washington. Albert Bushnell
Hart.
So. Representative Twentieth Century
Americans, NJ. A. De Wolfe Howe.
Fiction.
"Those who relish the study Of char
acter may profit by the reading Of good
works of fiction, the product of we'll es-
tablished authors. "-Whately.
Is. French Revolution in Fiction. VIII
liam Stearns Davis.
90. Westward March of American Set
Element, Hamlin Garland.
80. Twentieth Century American Novels
William Lyon Phelps.
History.
"A cultivated reader Of history is do
mesticated IN all families: he dimes with
Pericles, and sups with Titan
-Willmott.
8. Ten Pivotal Figures of History
Ambrose w. Vernon.
18. Europe of Our Day, Herbert Adams
. Gibbons.
20. United States in Recent Times
Frederic L. Paxson.
IS. French Revolution in Fiction, VIII
liam Stearns Davis.
90. Westward March Of American Set
Element, Hamlin Garland.
81. Founders of the Republic, Claude
@. Bowers.
As. English History, George H. Locke.
Language and Literature.
1.-The history Of literature is the his.
tory Of the human mind"
-WlIllam n. PRESCOTT.
2. English Literature. w. N. c. Carlton
4. Some Great American Books, Dallas
Lore Sharp.
10. Poetry of Our Own Times, Mar.
guerite Wilkinson.
"a. Modern Essay, Samuel McChorc
Crothers.
90. Modern Drama, Barrett H. Clark.
80. Twentieth Century American Novels
William Lyon Phelps.
a. English Drama on the Stage, Walter
Prichard Eaton
IS. Good English, Virginia c. Bacon.
81. French Literature, Irving Babbitt.
81. Scandinavian Literature, Hanna A
Larsen.
50. Shakespeare, Felix E. schclling.
81. Russian Literature, Avrahm Yarlno.
linSky.
Ga. Short Story Writing, Blanche Col.
ton Williams.
Philosophy and Religion.
"a little philosophy inclineth a man.
mind to atheism, but depth in philos.
ophy bringeth mems minds about tc
religion. Bacon.
6. Frontiers of knowledge, Jesse Lex
Bennett.
II. Psychology, Everett Dean Martin.
-. Philosophy, Alexander Meiklejohu.
IL. Religion in Everyday Life, Wilfred
T. Grenfell.
IS. Life of Christ, Rufus M. Jones.
Science.
Science Is organized knowledge"
-Spencer-Education
/. Biology, Vernon Kellogg.
8. Physical Sciences, E. e. SloSson.
80. The Stars, Harlow Shapley.
40. Geography, J. Russell Smith.
Al. Pivotal Figures of Science, Arthur
F. Bostwick.
40. Prehistoric Man, George Grant Nc
Curdy
A.. Human Body and It's Care, MORT.
Fishbein.
Sc. Invention and Society, waldemal
Kaempffert.
Social and Political Science.
Society is, indeed, a contract. I
It is a partnership in all science, q
partnership In all art, partnership ir
every virtue and In all perfection"
Burke.
S. Economies, Walton H. Hamilton.
8. Sociology and Social Problems
Howard w. Odum.
10. Conflicts in American Public Opin.
ion, William Allen White.
IS. Our Children, M. v. C'Shea.
16. Mental Hygiene, Frankwood E. Will
lianls.
%. American Education, william F
27. Practice Of Politics, Raymond Moley
80. Foreign Relations Of the United
States, Paul Scott Mower.