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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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Hall, G. Stanley, quoted, 253
- Harvard Classics, 109
- Heine, Heinrich, quoted, 173
- Henry, Joseph, 80
- Heredity, and memory, 73;
- 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;
- 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;
- Nautical Almanac, 80
- New country, What is? 182
- New England Society, 179
- New York, Free Circulating Library, 19
- New York, Library support in, 200;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Race-record, Library as a, 74
- Radio-activity, 231
- Rayleigh’s Law, 120
- Readers, Do they read? 3
- Reading, mechanism of, 91;
- Realism in education, 246;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Schoolmen of N.Y., Paper before, 23
- Scientific societies, 52
- “See America First” movement, 191
- Selection In nature, 23;
- 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;
- Structure of energy, 118
- Superficiality, meaning of, 105;
269
- Swift, Dean, 208
- Symbols, Use of, 188
- Taste, literary, 171;
- 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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