Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — ABOUT LIBRARIES. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT LIBRARIES.

The Pomona (Cal.) public library lias iost but one book in three years. Op seven hundred boys and girls who drew books from the library of the Coiege Settlement In Rivington street, New York, last year only two tad American parents. Mbs. Isabel Poland Bankin, 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 tho Xew 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 fie-

A sensible memorial will be that dedicated to Wilkie Collins. It will consist of a small library of choloe notion, to be presented to the "People’s Palace” In London. Fifteen hundred dollars has 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 ladles are reading a more serious line of books, Arnold, Froude and Lang, the men are taking te novel-reading with a vengeance.