Public Libraries, Volume 2

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Library bureau., 1897

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Página 243 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Página 23 - Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Página 107 - ... or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States...
Página 245 - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Página 168 - American Statesmen. A Series of Biographies of Men conspicuous in the Political History of the United States.
Página 24 - Section 2. The board shall give advice and counsel to libraries in the state, and to all communities which may propose to establish them, as to the best means of establishing and administering such libraries, the selection of books, cataloging, and other details of li•brary management. The board may also send its members to aid in organizing new libraries or in improving those already established.
Página 383 - Money governs the world, and the market price is the measure of the worth of men as well as of fishes." — ROGER I/ESTRANGE "Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.
Página 259 - York). For sale by all Booksellers. Sent postpaid on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON.
Página 370 - Wordsworth and Coleridge. — A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF MR. T. NORTON LONGMAN.
Página 24 - The commission shall give advice and counsel to all free libraries in the State, and to all communities which may propose to establish them, as to the best means of establishing and administering such libraries, the selection of books, cataloguing, and other details of library management.

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