FOOTNOTES[47]The general complaint among librarians is that these picture-books of the best type are too rare and too expensive to purchase in large quantities for general circulation.[48]Read Stevenson’s “A Penny Plain” in Memories and Portraits; also “The Dime Novel in American Life,” by Charles M. Harvey,Atlantic, 100:37 (July, 1907).[49]By Archdeacon Wilberforce, Hannah More’s friend.[50]Vide“Reading for Boys and Girls,” by Everett T. Tomlinson.Atlantic, 86:693 (Nov., 1900).[51]Article on Children’s Books. Reprinted inLiving Age, Aug. 10, 1844, 2:1.[52]There was the Elliptical Questioning—a form of “drawing out” and “injecting” knowledge and information.[53]In a letter to the author, Mr. C. G. Leland, Superintendent of the Bureau of Libraries, New York Board of Education, plainly states the province and the mission of the school library. He writes: “Nearly all of our educational institutions nowadays are very busily engaged in supplyinguseful information. The practical is crowding everything else out of their courses of study. The kind of knowledge that will help in the future struggle for existence and material betterment is being demanded more and more and is being taught to the exclusion of much that is only ethical or cultural.“As a continual protest against this materialistic tendency the school library takes its position and marshals its books. Its first purpose is to create a love for good literature and beautiful pictures as soon as the child has mastered the mechanics of reading; its ultimate aim is culture.“In the elementary school the library should reach to every class-room and offer there a few very attractive and very carefully selected books, so attractive and so well graded that the most indifferent boy or girl will be led by easy stages into the green fields of literature.“The class-room is still the strategic point, for even homes of refinement are wont to delegate the work of directing the children’s reading to the school, and the teacher with her case of well-known books has every day opportunities denied to public librarian and to the majority of parents.“The school library naturally points the way to the public library; its relation to that institution is that of the preparatory school to the university.“In supplying reference-books, and in correlating a certain amount of recreative reading with the school course, the library has another important field, but one which should be subordinated to the larger and broader function.”[54]This involves a careful consideration of a juvenile reference library.[55]Heinrich Wolgast, the German authority, has written: “Vom Kinderbuch,” Leipzig, Teubner, 1906.[56]VideLondonLibrary Association Record, Feb. 15, 1907.[57]This last statement, however, may be refuted by the répertoire of a Yiddish theatre. I have witnessed the theme of “King Lear” applied to Jewish life, and followed with bated breath by the boy in the gallery.[58]Stevenson’s father once stood outside the door and recorded one of these impromptu poems. The Rev. Charles Kingsley, when a boy, is said to have done the same thing.[59]VideW. M. Rossetti’s Memoirs of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Chap. VI, Childish Book Reading and Scribbling.
[47]The general complaint among librarians is that these picture-books of the best type are too rare and too expensive to purchase in large quantities for general circulation.
[47]The general complaint among librarians is that these picture-books of the best type are too rare and too expensive to purchase in large quantities for general circulation.
[48]Read Stevenson’s “A Penny Plain” in Memories and Portraits; also “The Dime Novel in American Life,” by Charles M. Harvey,Atlantic, 100:37 (July, 1907).
[48]Read Stevenson’s “A Penny Plain” in Memories and Portraits; also “The Dime Novel in American Life,” by Charles M. Harvey,Atlantic, 100:37 (July, 1907).
[49]By Archdeacon Wilberforce, Hannah More’s friend.
[49]By Archdeacon Wilberforce, Hannah More’s friend.
[50]Vide“Reading for Boys and Girls,” by Everett T. Tomlinson.Atlantic, 86:693 (Nov., 1900).
[50]Vide“Reading for Boys and Girls,” by Everett T. Tomlinson.Atlantic, 86:693 (Nov., 1900).
[51]Article on Children’s Books. Reprinted inLiving Age, Aug. 10, 1844, 2:1.
[51]Article on Children’s Books. Reprinted inLiving Age, Aug. 10, 1844, 2:1.
[52]There was the Elliptical Questioning—a form of “drawing out” and “injecting” knowledge and information.
[52]There was the Elliptical Questioning—a form of “drawing out” and “injecting” knowledge and information.
[53]In a letter to the author, Mr. C. G. Leland, Superintendent of the Bureau of Libraries, New York Board of Education, plainly states the province and the mission of the school library. He writes: “Nearly all of our educational institutions nowadays are very busily engaged in supplyinguseful information. The practical is crowding everything else out of their courses of study. The kind of knowledge that will help in the future struggle for existence and material betterment is being demanded more and more and is being taught to the exclusion of much that is only ethical or cultural.“As a continual protest against this materialistic tendency the school library takes its position and marshals its books. Its first purpose is to create a love for good literature and beautiful pictures as soon as the child has mastered the mechanics of reading; its ultimate aim is culture.“In the elementary school the library should reach to every class-room and offer there a few very attractive and very carefully selected books, so attractive and so well graded that the most indifferent boy or girl will be led by easy stages into the green fields of literature.“The class-room is still the strategic point, for even homes of refinement are wont to delegate the work of directing the children’s reading to the school, and the teacher with her case of well-known books has every day opportunities denied to public librarian and to the majority of parents.“The school library naturally points the way to the public library; its relation to that institution is that of the preparatory school to the university.“In supplying reference-books, and in correlating a certain amount of recreative reading with the school course, the library has another important field, but one which should be subordinated to the larger and broader function.”
[53]In a letter to the author, Mr. C. G. Leland, Superintendent of the Bureau of Libraries, New York Board of Education, plainly states the province and the mission of the school library. He writes: “Nearly all of our educational institutions nowadays are very busily engaged in supplyinguseful information. The practical is crowding everything else out of their courses of study. The kind of knowledge that will help in the future struggle for existence and material betterment is being demanded more and more and is being taught to the exclusion of much that is only ethical or cultural.
“As a continual protest against this materialistic tendency the school library takes its position and marshals its books. Its first purpose is to create a love for good literature and beautiful pictures as soon as the child has mastered the mechanics of reading; its ultimate aim is culture.
“In the elementary school the library should reach to every class-room and offer there a few very attractive and very carefully selected books, so attractive and so well graded that the most indifferent boy or girl will be led by easy stages into the green fields of literature.
“The class-room is still the strategic point, for even homes of refinement are wont to delegate the work of directing the children’s reading to the school, and the teacher with her case of well-known books has every day opportunities denied to public librarian and to the majority of parents.
“The school library naturally points the way to the public library; its relation to that institution is that of the preparatory school to the university.
“In supplying reference-books, and in correlating a certain amount of recreative reading with the school course, the library has another important field, but one which should be subordinated to the larger and broader function.”
[54]This involves a careful consideration of a juvenile reference library.
[54]This involves a careful consideration of a juvenile reference library.
[55]Heinrich Wolgast, the German authority, has written: “Vom Kinderbuch,” Leipzig, Teubner, 1906.
[55]Heinrich Wolgast, the German authority, has written: “Vom Kinderbuch,” Leipzig, Teubner, 1906.
[56]VideLondonLibrary Association Record, Feb. 15, 1907.
[56]VideLondonLibrary Association Record, Feb. 15, 1907.
[57]This last statement, however, may be refuted by the répertoire of a Yiddish theatre. I have witnessed the theme of “King Lear” applied to Jewish life, and followed with bated breath by the boy in the gallery.
[57]This last statement, however, may be refuted by the répertoire of a Yiddish theatre. I have witnessed the theme of “King Lear” applied to Jewish life, and followed with bated breath by the boy in the gallery.
[58]Stevenson’s father once stood outside the door and recorded one of these impromptu poems. The Rev. Charles Kingsley, when a boy, is said to have done the same thing.
[58]Stevenson’s father once stood outside the door and recorded one of these impromptu poems. The Rev. Charles Kingsley, when a boy, is said to have done the same thing.
[59]VideW. M. Rossetti’s Memoirs of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Chap. VI, Childish Book Reading and Scribbling.
[59]VideW. M. Rossetti’s Memoirs of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Chap. VI, Childish Book Reading and Scribbling.