Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — ABOUT LIBRARIES. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT LIBRARIES.

The Pomona (Cal.) public library has lost fiut ope book in three years. Of seven hundred ) oya and girls who drew books from the library of the College Settlement In Rlvington street, New York, last year only two had American parents, Mbs. Isabel Poland Rankin, daughter of the late Luke P. Poland, has given. to the town of Morristown, Vt., one thousand dollars toward a library which is being established there. The records of the New Haven Public Library show that there were four thousand less books drawn last year than the year previous, the decrease being almost wholly in the field of fiction. A sensible memorial will be that dedicated to Wilkie Collins. It will consist of a small library of choice fiction, to be presented to the “People’s Palace” in London. Fifteen hundred dollars bas already been raised for this purpose. Some one has been interviewing a country book-seller in England with an extended business and learned from him that while the ladies are reading a moro serious line of hooks, Arnold, Froude and Lang, the men are taking to novel-reading with a vengeance.