The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-11
R0untree Memorial Gift
Contains Wealth OfBooks

anyone who loves to read and
everyone who reads will find the
several hundred books included in
the Rountree Memorial library !.
gift to the City library in memory
OF tne late Judge George Rountree
a guide to a liberal education as
they cover philosophy, religion,
economics, law, art, literature and
biography. ~
The books were donated to the
city the first Of the year by George
Hountree, Jr., and his sister. Mrs.
ROBERT Z. Masterson who now lives
in Hillsboro.
Judge Rountree was we'll
rounded, influential and useful
citizen and his friends often quoted
aim as perfect example of a
thoroughbred North Carolinian. !"
He was known throughout the state
not only in law circles but also
IN business and politics.
Harvard Grad
He was graduated from Harvard
University ~ 1877, Bachelor Of
Arts, and married Miss Meta
Alexander Davis October q, 1881.
They had five children of which all
are deceased except George Roun-
tree, Jr., and Mrs. Masterson.
Besides being the senior member
OF the law firm Of Rountree and
Carr, Judge Rountree was at one
time legislator, Judge of Superior
court, president of State Bar asso-
citation, and general solicitor for
the Atlantic Coast Line system.
He was often seen coming out
OF the Bijou theatre where he en-
Joyed seeing cowboy pictures.
Young Rountree followed in his
fathers law circle and is now with
the firm Of Rountree and Rountree.
He graduated from Harvard Law
school in 1929.
Cataloguing Progress
The Rountree books are being
catalogued at the library as quick
ly as possible, according to Miss
Emma Woodward head Librarian,
and placed on shelves with
Memorial Book plate in front of
each book.
Among the books already placed
on the shelves include the follow
ing:
Philosophy: German Philosophy
and Politics, Reconstruction in
Philosophy, both books by Dewey;
and Philosophy Of the Good Life
by Gore.
Religion: Behold the Man. by
Rittelmeyer; The Druids, by Ken
drick.
Books on Economics
Economics: The History OF Free
dom, by Acton; Method of Freedom
by Lippman; Old Law and the New
Order, by Alger; and A Digest Of
Criminal Law, by Stephens.
Law: Sir John Fortescue Com
mendation of the Laws of England,
by Fortescue; Jottings Of an Old
Solicitor, by Hollams; Treatise on
the Law of Wills; The Government
of the U. S. National, State and
Local, by Munro; Tammany Hall,
by Werner; Famous Kentucky
Tragedies and Trials, by johnson;
and Book of Scoundrels, by Whib-
ley.
Art: Florence, by Philippi;' Pic
lures in the Tate Gallery, by Hart
ley; Legal and Public Speaking,
by Brumbaugh; F1otsam and Jet
sam, by Gaines; and People, Peo-
pie Everywhere, by Davis.
Literature Field
Literature: Poems and Plays, by
Goldsmith; Earthly Paradise, by
Morris; Lectures and Essays. by
Anger; Essays, by Lamb; Wit,
Wisdom and Pathos, by Refine;
Monna Wanna, by Maeterlinek;
Roman Literature in Translation,
by Howe; odes and Epodes, by
Horatius; Aeschylus, by Murray;
Life OF the Ancient Greeks, by
Guilick; Social Life in the Reign
of Queen Anne, by Ashton; and
Book about London, by Wagner.
Travel and History: On the Dia-
mond Trail in British Quina, by
Richardson; History of Europe, by
Fisher; Inside the Peace Confer
ence, by Dillon; First Seven Divi-
sions, by Hamilton: Constitutional
History of England, by Stubb;
Manchuria, by Adachi; Documen-
tary Source Book Of American
History 16o6-1913, by Macdonald;
Mckinley and Roosevelt Admin
strations, by Rhodes; Party Battles
of the Jackson Period, by Bowers;
Is Davis a Traitor, by Bledsoe;
Southern States Of the American
Union, by Cherry; Old Surry, by
Bohannan; and Recollections OF
Mississippi, by Davis.
Fine Biographies
Biography: Victorian Chancellors
by Atlay; Thompson, by Balfour;
Storrs, by Saint Bernard De Clair
vauc; Law, Life and Letters, by
Birke; An English Wife in Berlin,
by Blucher; Cunningham, by Lord
Bowen; Life and Times of Henry,
Lord Bowen, by Brougham;
Memoirs of Prince Won Bulow, by
Bulow; Recollections of Lord Cole
ridge, by Coleridge; Memoirs, by
Curtis; jerks, Edward Plantagenet
by Edward 1; Under Four Ad-
ministrations, by Straus; and Her
Letters, by Elizabeth Montagu.