Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — Return Those Books And Magazines. [ARTICLE]

Return Those Books And Magazines.

All persons having either books or magazines in their possession belonging to the Public School library should return them at once, as the trustees desire to take an invoice of the books in the library, and catalogue the same, and the magazines should be retufned so they rain he honnd, Look through your book cases at home, get the books down, that you have borrowed, and return them at once, to the owner. Now your library will shrink I know, but it i right The possession of books so acquired is not lawful. You should not attempt to establish the reputation of being good “book keepers” in that way. Atlantic Monthlies, Forums, North American Reviews, Harpers Monthlies, and Review of Reviews, have been furnished the School Library, for three years, at an expense of about twenty dollars per year, these when bound will add thirty Vols. of good reference books to the Library for our children, to r efer to in the future. The writer of this notice saw some five volumes of books, belonging to the Library of th e public schools in a book case, in one of the residences Of this town, in fact the entire library of thia, family may have been acquired in this way* but it is to be hoped not

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