Instruction in the Use of Books and Libraries: A Testvook for Normal Schools and CollegesBoston book Company, 1915 - 449 páginas |
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Instruction in the Use of Books and Libraries Lucy Ella Fay,Anne Thaxter Eaton Visualização integral - 1915 |
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50 cents A. L. A. Publishing Board alphabetically American Library Association arranged Arthur Rackham atlas author card Bibliography biography Bost boys and girls brary Bulletin call number catalogue chapter Charles chil child children's books children's literature classics collection color comp Cyclopedia Dictionary edition England English Everyman's library fairy fairy tales fiction Figure Ginn give Greek Guide High School Library Houghton Iliad illus illustrations Jessie Wilcox Smith John King Arthur Kroeger librarian library at 50 Louis Rhead Mabinogion magazines manuscripts maps material modern N. Y. Appleton N. Y. Dutton N. Y. Harper N. Y. Macmillan N. Y. Putnam N. Y. Scribner pamphlets period Pilgrim's Progress poems poetry Poole's Index popular printed public library Readers reference books Reinforced binding Robin Hood Scott selection shelf-list shelves Sir Walter Stevenson stories Supplement teachers tell tion verse volume Walter Crane writing young
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Página 397 - Natural science 510 Mathematics 520 Astronomy 530 Physics 540 Chemistry 550 Geology 560 Paleontology 570 Biology 580 Botany 590 Zoology 600 Useful arts 610 Medicine 620 Engineering 630 Agriculture 640 Domestic economy 650 Communication.
Página 251 - What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship— what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave— and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry.
Página 215 - This I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers ; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old...
Página 215 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.
Página 231 - is almost out of print. Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery...
Página 142 - The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn.
Página 40 - Webster's new international dictionary of the English language, based on the International dictionary of 1890 and 1900. Now completely revised in all departments, including also a dictionary of geography and biography, being the latest authentic quarto edition of the Merriam series.
Página 368 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto...
Página 231 - ... and Billy is better than a horse, and such like : instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.
Página 194 - The Hypocrite is like unto this Frog ; As like as is the puppy to the dog. He is of nature cold, his mouth is wide, To prate, and at true goodness to deride.