A librarian's open shelf
Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
A librarian's open shelf essays on various subjects / - 2nd reprinting. - Freeport, NY Books for Libraries Press 1969, c1920. - ix, 344 p. 22 cm. - Essay index reprint series .
Do readers read.--What makes people read.--The passing of the possessive; a study of book titles.--Selective education.--The uses of fiction.--The value of association.--Modern educational methods.--Some economic features of libraries.--Simon Newcomb: America's foremost astronomer.--The companionship of books.--Atomic theories of energy.--The advertisement of ideas.--The public library, the public school, and the social center movement.--The systematization of violence.--The art of reading.--History and heredity.--What the flag stands for.--The people's share in the public library.--Some tendencies of American thought.--Drugs and the man.--How the community educates itself.--Clubwomen's reading.--Books for tired eyes.--The magic casement.--A word to believers.
67023182
Books and reading
Libraries
Education
PS 3503 .O67 / L5 1969
028./9
A librarian's open shelf essays on various subjects / - 2nd reprinting. - Freeport, NY Books for Libraries Press 1969, c1920. - ix, 344 p. 22 cm. - Essay index reprint series .
Do readers read.--What makes people read.--The passing of the possessive; a study of book titles.--Selective education.--The uses of fiction.--The value of association.--Modern educational methods.--Some economic features of libraries.--Simon Newcomb: America's foremost astronomer.--The companionship of books.--Atomic theories of energy.--The advertisement of ideas.--The public library, the public school, and the social center movement.--The systematization of violence.--The art of reading.--History and heredity.--What the flag stands for.--The people's share in the public library.--Some tendencies of American thought.--Drugs and the man.--How the community educates itself.--Clubwomen's reading.--Books for tired eyes.--The magic casement.--A word to believers.
67023182
Books and reading
Libraries
Education
PS 3503 .O67 / L5 1969
028./9