[1] Address delivered on behalf League of Library Commissions,
Asheville Conference A. L. A., May 27, 1907.
[2] George Eliot, "Middlemarch."
[3] Read before the New York Library Association at Haines Falls, Sept.
28, 1915.
[4] Painter. History of Education.
[5] One devotes thereto a column and a half of 1736 columns in the
volume, and the other devotes 37 columns to the subject of the 1480
columns contained in one of the five volumes of the work.
[6] _Library Journal._
[7] Lowe. Literature for Children.
[8] Nearing, Scott. The New Education.
[9] Hodgson, Elizabeth. The Adolescent's Prejudice Against the
Classics. _English Journal_, Sept., 1915.
[10] President's address at Kaaterskill Conference, American Library
Association, June, 1913.
[11] Extracts from a paper in the _Educational Bi-monthly_, April,
1910, entitled, "The Chicago Public Library and Co-operation with the
Schools."
[12] Extracts from booklet, "_Books for the People_," 1908.
[13] _The Municipality_, Dec., 1905.
Transcriber's Notes:
Some spelling has been normalized.
Variations in hyphenation and accentuation were maintained.
Italicized words and phrases are presented by surrounding the text
with underscores.
The signature of J. Christian Bay who wrote the Preface is in all
capitals. In original book and in html version it is in small
capitals.