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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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oy theseprivileges. Hawthorne, Tangle-wood Tales, and TheJungle Stories are not toodifiicult for children, andthere is educational valuein many of the stories ofaS^. Kicliolas and other so-called juvenile magazines.In many libraries largetables are loaded with mapsand pictures, and many abook which otherwisemight le dull is found in-teresting when prettily il-lustrated. Detroit has been inter-ested in the work for chil-dren since 1887, whenbooks were first sent tothe high school for helpin class work. It now hasa childrens room on the ground floor. All ofthe best periodicals for children are kept on file,and errand boys, newsboys, bootblacks, andstreet boys come in the long winter evenings toenjoy them. Every effort is made in these libraries to at-tract children, and last summer the Toledo Pub-lic Library sent to the scholars in their city, justbefore the close of the term, lists of books forboys and girls of different ages, with an invita-tion to make free use of the childrens room.
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NEW YORK FREE CIKCULATINU LIUHAUY, CHATHAM SQUARE BRANCH. 52 THE AMERFCAN MONTHLY REl/IEW OF RE^IEIVS. The aim in this library, as in the others, is tomake the room a source of pleasure to the chil-dren and to counteract the evil influences of thestreet. Boston has had a separate department for chil-dren since May, 1895. The age limit is tenyears for pupils cards and twelve years for ordi-nary cards. Seventy-five hundred books areshelved, of which 500 are a reference library.The average circulation is about 300. There arefour attendants for the room. This library, likeothers, does organized work with the schools.There is no library league. Solar prints repre-senting architecture and statuary are hung in the quality of reading, the children are encour-aged to ask questions. Underneath a picture ofmother bird with nest full of eggs are Mr.Cheneys bird songs and a list of various kindsof birds. The children love their librarian, andcome to her with all their joys and griefs, withdemands

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