Libraries and Readers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The book is not a treatise. Although various phases of the question are considered, there is no at tempt to make this volume cover the ground exhaust ively. The important question of fiction reading, though incidentally referred to, is not here treated at length. The equally important question of relations between libraries and schools is conspicuous by its absence, for the reason that the papers in which the writer has discussed this matter are elsewhere pub lished almost simultaneously with this volume.

Mr. Emerson has somewhere maintained that a man should be, above and before all things else, a man - not a teacher or a thinker, but a man teach ing and a man thinking. The writer disavows all claim of being an author or a lecturer, and will be abundamly satisfied if the reader of these pages shall attribute them to a librarian writing and a libra rian speaking, and in this way using two very ch'eet ual methods of enforcing the principles of his work.

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