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A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects

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This collection of essays surveys library practice, reading habits, and broader cultural and educational concerns from the perspective of a librarian. Individual pieces examine why and how people read, the benefits of browsing, the social role of public libraries and associations, the uses of fiction and methods of education, and practical and economic aspects of library work. Other essays address the promotion of ideas, relations between libraries and schools, civic programs such as social centers, and occasional commentary on science, advertising, and public sentiment. The tone blends practical advice, reflective observation, and concise argument aimed at librarians, educators, and informed readers.

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  • Abraham, Story of, 335
  • Action, test of belief, 332
  • Ade, George, 110, 170;
    • fables in picture plays, 319
  • Adults and children, compared, 14
  • Advertisement of ideas, 127
  • Aldrich, T.B., 322
  • Alger, Horatio, 16, 174
  • America, Fluid customs in, 224
  • “America”, hymn, 191
  • American Academy of Sciences, 57
  • American ancestry, 179;
    • architecture, 218;
    • art, 217;
    • music, 218;
    • philosophy, 220;
    • religion, 219;
    • thought, tendencies of, 213
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, 50
  • American Library Association, 51
  • American Library Institute, 52
  • American readers, 42
  • Americanization, 17, 73
  • Americanization of England, 225
  • Ancestry, American, 179
  • Anglo-Saxon ancestry, 181
  • Architecture, American, 218
  • Archives, family, 184
  • Army, international, 159
  • Art, American, 217;
    • effect of, 163
  • Art, Early forms of, 37
  • Association, value of, 45
  • Atoms of energy and action, 122
  • Attractiveness a selective feature, 26
  • Austen, Jane, 176
  • Author, Function of, 67
  • Authors Club, N.Y., 51
  • Auto-suggestion in drugs, 233
  • Aviation, Newcomb’s opinion of, 86
  • Belief, What is?, 339
  • Bennett, Arnold, 175
  • Bible, King James Version, 337
  • Birth of a nation; picture play, 322
  • Book-stores, disappearance of, 238
  • Books in selective education, 27
  • “Book-Taught Bilkins”, 89, 98
  • Book-titles, Possessive case in, 19
  • Boston tea-party, 183
  • Branch libraries, Reasons given for using, 11
  • British Association, 307
  • Brooklyn Public Library, 4
  • Brown, Susannah H., who was she? 281
  • Browsing, 27;
  • Bryce, James, quoted, 216
  • Buildings, Monumental, 141
  • Bulwer-Lytton, E.G.E.L., 86
  • Burbank, Luther, 24
  • Cabiria; motion picture play, 319, 322
  • Captions in motion pictures, 318
  • Carnegie, Andrew, 77
  • Carnegie Institution, 85, 306
  • Cartoonist, Anecdote of, 294
  • Centre, What is a?, 145
  • Centralized associations, 58
  • Certainty and belief, 330
  • Chaucer, 293
  • Chautauqua, 265
  • Chemistry, New drugs from, 232
  • Chicago Evening Post, quoted, 109
  • Chicago, Field houses in, 148
  • Chicago Women’s Club, Paper before, 197
  • Children’s editions, 6;
    • rooms, 31
  • Christian Science and drugs, 233
  • Christianity, 331
  • Christmas book shows, 170
  • Church School of religious instruction, 329
  • Church, Use of symbols by, 188
  • Churches of Christ in America, Federation of, 220
  • Circulation by volumes, 6;
    • publicity value of, 142;
    • tables, 7, 8
  • Circulation, Publicity, 142
  • Civil Engineers, Society of, 52
  • Civil War, Notions of, 180
  • Classroom libraries, 29
  • Clergy, Slight influence of, 13
  • “Close-ups” in motion pictures, 317
  • Clubs that meet in libraries, 148
  • Clubwomen’s reading, 259
  • Colloquial speech, 92
  • Color-photography in motion pictures, 327
  • Combat, Settlement by, 158
  • Commercial travellers, 198
  • Commission government, 216
  • Constitution, United States, 50, 214;
    • amendment of, 226
  • Continuum, 116
  • Cook, Dr. Frederick, 95
  • Copyright conference, 53
  • Courses of reading, 268
  • Court, International, 159
  • Creeds, Uses of, 333
  • Crowd-psychology on a ferry, 247
  • Dante, 46
  • D’Annunzio, G., 322
  • Delivery stations in drug stores, 241
  • Democracy a result, 72;
    • and ancestry, 186;
    • and despotism, 213;
    • conditions of, 209
  • Department stores, 238
  • Despotism and democracy, 213
  • Dickens, pathos of, 175
  • Disarmament, 161
  • Discontinuity of the universe, 124
  • Distribution of books, 67, 129
  • Distributor, Library as a, 198
  • Divorce, Freedom of, 217
  • Don Quixote, Heine on, 173
  • Drug-addiction, 234
  • Drugs and the man, 229
  • Eaton, Walter Pritchard, quoted, 316
  • Eclecticism in America, 213
  • Economic advertising, 130
  • Economic writings of Newcomb, 86
  • Education, American, 218;
    • in recreation, 100;
    • modern methods of, 63;
    • of the community, 243;
    • of the sexes, 273;
    • post-scholastic, 30;
    • selective, 23, 65;
    • through books, 90
  • Efficiency in association, 48;
  • Elizabethan drama, 323
  • Energetics, Theory of, 114
  • Energy, Atomic theories of, 113
  • England an elective monarchy, 214;
    • rigid customs in, 224;
    • source consciousness in, 182
  • Ephemeral, Meaning of, 36
  • Episcopalians, 220
  • Eyes, injured by small type, 302
  • Fairy tales, 75
  • Falsity in books, 39
  • Feminist movement, 267
  • Flag, what it stands for, 187
  • Fiction, 39;
    • interest in, 137;
    • intoxication by, 40, 100;
    • uses of, 35
  • Fluids, Mixture of, 118
  • Force symbolized by flag, 194
  • Ford, Henry, 237
  • Freedom, What is? 192
  • Gallicism in book-titles, 22
  • Gary system, 246
  • Genealogy, American, 179
  • Gibbs, J. Willard, quoted, 118
  • Good-will, Influence of, 17
  • Government, Federal, 213
  • Gravitation, Law of, 83
  • Gray’s Elegy, 111
  • Greek tragedy, 324
  • Group-action, 45;
    • on a ferry, 247
  • Hall, G. Stanley, quoted, 253
  • Harvard Classics, 109
  • Heine, Heinrich, quoted, 173
  • Henry, Joseph, 80
  • Heredity, and memory, 73;
    • History and, 179
  • Hertzian waves, 121
  • Hilgard, Julius, 80
  • Hill, G.W., 84
  • Holmes, Mary J., 104
  • Homer, Methods of, 198
  • Honesty, Lack of, 32
  • Huey, Book by, 305
  • Hunt, Leigh, 109
  • Huret, Jules, 41
  • Identity, Meaning of, 114
  • Impeachment, 214
  • Indicator, in English libraries, 225
  • Indifference to books, 133
  • Information in books, 94
  • Inspiration from books, 101
  • Intemperance in reading, 40, 100
  • Interest, Importance of, 287, 289;
    • Necessity of, 5, 137
  • International agreements in science, 85
  • Internationalism, 159
  • Intoxication by fiction, 40, 100
  • Ivanhoe, 175
  • James, William, 138;
    • founder of pragmatism, 221;
    • quoted, 287
  • Keith, Cleveland, 84
  • Kent, William, quoted, 229
  • Kepler, quoted, 177
  • Kinemacolor process, 327
  • Kinetic theory, 120
  • Koopman, H.L., 308
  • Lagrange, 114
  • Languages, written and spoken, 90
  • Large type, Books in, 301
  • Law, Enforcement of, 158
  • Le Bon, Gustave, 45
  • Lee, Gerald Stanley, 77
  • Legibility of type, 306
  • Libbey, Laura Jean, 41, 104
  • Libraries, Economic features of, 67
  • Library associations. 49;
    • Non-partisanship of, 70, 96, 152;
    • Private basis of, 169
  • Lindsay, Vachell, 321
  • Lines, Length of on printed page, 309
  • Liouville’s theorem, 123
  • Lippmann, Walter, quoted, 216, 228
  • Literature an art, 165;
    • evaluation of, 95;
    • static and dynamic, 35
  • Los Angeles Public Library, 96
  • Lower-case letters. 307
  • Loyalists, United Empire, 180
  • Lummis, Chas. F., 96
  • Lunar theory, 84
  • Magazines, Support of, 68
  • Magical remedies, 233
  • Magnet, Definition of, 87
  • Make-up in motion pictures, 317
  • Malemployment, 229
  • Maxwell Jas. Clerk, 115
  • Mayflower, The, 183
  • Medical Record, Strasburg, 305
  • Meetings in libraries, 147
  • Memory, Latent, 74
  • Meredith, Geo., 110
  • Mexican commission, 194
  • Military associations, 48
  • Mill, John Stuart, 243, 244
  • Mind, Male and female types, 272
  • Moderation, Lack of in America, 235
  • Mohammedanism, 219
  • Molecular theory, 115
  • Moon’s motion, 84
  • Morals, Eclecticism in, 216
  • Morgan, J.P., 169
  • Motives of library users, 11
  • Moving pictures, 313
  • Municipal ownership and operation, 154
  • Music, American, 218
  • N-ray, 333
  • Narrative, earliest literary form, 37
  • National Academy of Fine Arts, 57
  • National Academy of Science, 52
  • National Education Association, 50;
    • Address before, 145
  • Nautical Almanac, 80
  • New country, What is? 182
  • New England Society, 179
  • New York, Free Circulating Library, 19
  • New York, Library support in, 200;
    • West side readers, 42
  • New York Public Library, 11, 30, 220
  • Newcomb, Simon, Sketch of, 79
  • Newspapers, 36
  • Newton, Isaac, 83
  • Non-partisanship of library, 250
  • Norris, Frank, 322
  • Omar Khayyam, 108
  • Open shelves, 104;
    • Origin of, 225
  • Optic, Oliver, 174
  • Ostwald, Wilhelm, 114
  • Pacifism, 157
  • Pageant of St. Louis, 188
  • Pantomime in the motion picture, 320
  • Papers, Ready-made, for clubs, 270;
    • scientific, 275
  • Pater, Walter, 168
  • Paulist fathers, 220
  • Pauperization, intellectual, 68
  • Pendleton, A.M., quoted, 140
  • Perry, Bliss, quoted, 211
  • Pharmacy, School of, address to, 229
  • Philadelphia Free Library, Address at, 67
  • Philosophy, an interesting subject, 133, 138;
    • in America, 220
  • Phonograph, Uses of, 94
  • Physics made interesting, 138
  • Pickford, Mary, 247, 317
  • Planck, Max, 113, 120
  • Planets, Orbits of, 83
  • Players’ Club, N.Y., 51
  • Pocahontas, 183
  • Poincaré, Henri, 113, 120
  • “Poison labels” for books, 96
  • Porter, Noah, 334
  • Posse, International, 159
  • Possessive case, Use of, 19
  • Pragmatism in America, 221
  • Prayer Book as literature, 337
  • Prescott, William H., 95
  • Press, Slight influence of, 13
  • Pride, Personal and group, 185
  • Princeton University, 219
  • Printing Art, magazine, 308
  • Programitis, club disease, 286
  • Programmes, Club, 268, 280, 295
  • Public as library owners, 205
  • Public Library, 169;
    • eclecticism of, 221;
    • people’s share in, 197
  • Publicity, Library, 140
  • Publisher, Function of, 67
  • Puritanism, 219
  • Quanta, 121;
    • hypothesis of, 113
  • Race-record, Library as a, 74
  • Radio-activity, 231
  • Rayleigh’s Law, 120
  • Readers, Do they read? 3
  • Reading, mechanism of, 91;
    • skill in, 135
  • Realism in education, 246;
    • in motion pictures, 314
  • Recall, earliest form of, 213
  • Records, varieties of, 94
  • Recreation through books, 99
  • Religion in America, 219
  • Renewal, Preservation by, 97
  • Repetition a test of art, 166
  • Reprinting, Use of, 98
  • Re-reading, Art of, 163
  • Residual personality, 290
  • Resonators, 121
  • Revolution, American, notions of, 180;
    • versus evolution, 279
  • Revue Scientifique, 113
  • Roethlin, Barbara E., 306
  • Roman Catholic Church, 220
  • Roman viewpoint in history, 181
  • Rome, decadence of, 227
  • Rousiers, Paul de., quoted, 55, 56, 57
  • St. Louis Academy of Science, paper before, 113
  • St. Louis, library tax in, 200
  • St. Louis Public Library, 140, 254, 302;
    • meetings in, 150
  • Sampling books, 110
  • Scenery in motion pictures, 317;
    • in Elizabethan drama, 323;
    • made of motion pictures, 327
  • School libraries, 29
  • School, Non-partisanship of, 70;
    • Community use of, 155
  • Schoolmen of N.Y., Paper before, 23
  • Scientific societies, 52
  • “See America First” movement, 191
  • Selection In nature, 23;
    • mechanical, 47
  • Selective education, 65
  • Sex in library use, 15
  • Sexes, differences of, 272
  • Shakespeare, 178;
    • changes in, 293;
    • rank of, 168;
    • unavailable for stage, 323
  • Shaw, Edw. R., 304
  • Social Centre movement, 145
  • Society for Psychical Research, 82
  • Society of Illuminating Engineers, 57
  • Socrates, quoted, 338
  • Sorolla, 164
  • Southern views of Civil War, 180
  • Spelling reform, 93
  • Staginess of the theatre, 315
  • Standard Dictionary, 87
  • Standards in literature, 36
  • Statistics of reading, actual, 4
  • Story-telling, 37;
    • extraordinary, 282
  • Structure of energy, 118
  • Superficiality, meaning of, 105; 269
  • Swift, Dean, 208
  • Symbols, Use of, 188
  • Taste, literary, 171;
    • origin of, 4
  • Tax, library, 200
  • Teacher, influence of, 13, 243
  • Text-books, Defects of, 270
  • Therapeutics, Changes in, 230
  • Tocqueville, de., quoted, 56
  • Toronto, University of, 220
  • Trade-literature, 98
  • Tradition, Uses of, 93
  • Travel, Foreign, in United States, 41
  • Trollope, Anthony, 176
  • Tutorial system, 219
  • Tyndall, John, 138
  • Type sizes, Standardization of, 304
  • Un-American, what is? 226
  • Unfitness, Elimination of, 24
  • Union, symbolized by flag, 189
  • Unity of place on the stage, 324
  • Universal City, 317
  • Value, Structure of, 119
  • Van Dyke, Henry, quoted, 193
  • Verne, Jules, 86
  • Violence, systematization of, 157
  • Vision, Conservation of, 305
  • Volumes, Statistics by, 4
  • Walton, Isaac, 165
  • War, European, 209, 249; status of, 158
  • Wesley, John, 46
  • West, source-consciousness of, 182
  • White, Gilbert, 165
  • Wien, Wilhelm, 122
  • Women’s Clubs, 210; reading of, 259
  • Woodbury, George E., quoted, 219
  • Yale Alumni Weekly, quoted, 292

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  1. Read before the Schoolmen of New York.
  2. Read before the American Library Association, Asheville Conference, May 28, 1907
  3. An address delivered before the Library Associations of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, October 9-18, 1907.
  4. Read at the opening of the Chestnut Hill Branch, Philadelphia Free Library, January 22, 1909.
  5. Read before the Pacific Northwest Library Association, June, 1910.
  6. Read before the St. Louis Academy of Science.
  7. Read before the National Education Association.
  8. Read before the New England Society of St. Louis.
  9. An address on Flag Day made in St. Peter's Church, St. Louis.
  10. The Pageant and Masque of St. Louis, 1915.
  11. United States and "A-B-C" Commissions on the State of Mexico.
  12. Read before the Chicago Woman's Club. January 6, 1915.
  13. Read before the New York Library Association at Squirrel Inn, Haines Falls, September 28, 1915.
  14. A Commencement address to the graduating class of the School of Pharmacy, St. Louis, May 19, 1915.
  15. Read before the American Library Association, Asbury Park, N.J., June 27, 1916.
  16. Read before the Town and Gown Club, St. Louis.
  17. Address at the closing session of the Church School of Religious Instruction, St. Louis.