d Borrow and put on exhibition the N. E. A. and A. L. A. loan exhibits of scrap books, showing what the best school libraries are doing for all the different departments of the schools. This may suggest the use of library material in departments which had never used it before, the physical training, physics, chemistry, music and other departments. 4 Library hour in public library and library instruction. We urge a much fuller use of the public library for the library hour during school time when a teacher takes an entire class to the public library for reference work or reading in connection with school work. We also urge that far greater effort be made to give systematic instruction to pupils in the seventh, eighth and high school grades in the use of reference books, card catalog and indexes. 5 State exhibit of school library aids. Finally we recommend that there be collected and organized at Albany for use throughout the State, a comprehensive exhibit of all that is best and most helpful in school library equipment and administration. By means of such an exhibit, brought on all fitting occasions to the attention of school people, we believe we can do more to open their eyes to the large part the library may play in school work than by any other means. LIBRARIES AND THE FOOD PROBLEM Public libraries in New York State are helping to solve the food problem in the following ways: I Establish, and maintain relations of understanding and cooperation with other local agencies at work on the same problem. Provide all literature needed for those agencies. 2 Maintain a section, case or shelf in the library, with bulletin board, devoted to the food question. 3 Provide for this purpose a liberal supply of the best and more popular books on food questions. Give publicity to this section by bulletins, leaflets or notices in local papers. 4 Have on constant display a carefully selected list of the best bulletins, pamphlets, leaflets etc. of the state and federal food commissions, state and United States departments of agriculture and state colleges of agriculture. 5 Make a liberal use of large posters setting forth the main ideas of the Food Administration, using those supplied by the Government and, wherever possible, such as may be produced for the purpose by some of the more expert pupils in drawing in the public schools, changing these posters at frequent intervals. 6 Get some of the main ideas of the movement into the homes of borrowers by inclosing in books, brief slips or leaflets setting forth those ideas. 7 Watch the periodicals as they come into the library for leading articles on the food question, and post on bulletin board each week or month a fresh list of such articles, or have such lists mimeographed for general distribution. 8 Get economic food recipes in quantities and distribute freely. 9 Prepare special exhibits to give concrete and graphic illustration of the facts underlying the food campaign. 10 Hold public meetings at the library for addresses, demonstrations, display of library aids, distribution of material, etc. II Promote the organization of home economic clubs and provide outlines and books for consecutive study and reading by such clubs. 12 Post at the library an appeal for membership in the United States Food Administration and enrol members, giving each the official card for home display. 13 Keep in constant touch with the ideas and program of the Food Administration as they develop month by month, putting such special stress on different topics as national needs call for; as, for example, the sugar problem was stressed in November, the hog problem in December, the garden and canning questions in their special time of emphasis. 14 Aid library patrons in taking advantage of state and United States publications of interest by making them acquainted with such publications and having their names placed on the regular mailing lists. Use the local papers to this same end. 15 Cooperate with school teachers in getting pupils to write essays on various aspects of the food question; get interested patrons to offer prizes for the best of such essays. 16 Correlate the campaign for the saving of food with the campaign for war-savings, illustrating and emphasizing the fact that they supplement each other. 17 Make liberal use of the columns of the local papers, both to give full publicity to what the library is doing and to emphasize the part that food production and food economy is to have in the final issues of the war. LIBRARY GIFTS IN NEW YORK STATE, AMOUNTING TO $1000 IN VALUE, MADE OR ANNOUNCED IN 1917 Albany. New York State Library. 7653 volumes and 36,812 pamphlets received from several donors. Canton. $50,000 for endowment of town library system from Hon. A. Barton Hepburn; the gift conditioned on pledge of the voters of the town to appropriate $4000 a year for library support, including income from endowment. Delmar. $2300 from Rachel A. Sullivan, to be applied to the new building; the gift being a memorial to her late husband. Dundee. House, lot and private library, by will of Della W. Cooper; also $2000 for new library building if an equal sum is raised in specified time for the same purpose. Endicott. $2275 for library improvement and maintenance, from Mr and Mrs C. B. Lord. Greenwich. $4000 for endowment of library, from an unnamed patron. Huntington. $5000 by will of William White. Ilion. $2500 by will of Cornelia Seamans. Johnson City. 4000 volumes and entire cost of library maintenance, from G. F. Johnson. Lisbon. Library building, stock of books and $20,000 endowment, the total gift estimated at over $35,000, from Hon. A. Barton Hepburn; gift conditioned on pledge by a two-thirds vote of town to appropriate from taxation $1000 a year for library maintenance. The condition has been met. Lodi. $1500 from many local donors to provide new library building. McGraw. $1132 from Elizabeth K. Lamont, for improvement and maintenance of Lamont Memorial Library. Middleville. $3000 and share in her residuary estate, by will of E. W. Corey. Millbrook. $1048 from an anonymous donor, for general library expense and improvement. New York City. Association of the Bar Library. 2022 volumes from unnamed source. New York City. City College Library. $110,000 from various alumni and friends for fund for new library building. New York City. Public Library. Unrestricted bequest of $1,000,000 from Oliver H. Payne, who died June 27, 1917; a total of 34,899 volumes, 67,824 pamphlets and 542 prints from various donors. New York City. New York Society Library. $600,000 together with articles of historic and artistic value, by will of Mrs Sarah C. Goodhue; the money to be used in erecting a new building as a memorial to her late husband. New York City. Teachers College Library. $250,000 from two unnamed donors, to be used as basis of a fund for a new library building. Newark Valley. Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library. Property valued at $2500 from Otto Matile. Ogdensburg. $10,000 from J. C. Howard, to be added to $15,000 previously contributed by Mr George Hall, for the erection of a model fireproof library building for the city, both gifts being conditioned on the raising of further amounts sufficient for the purpose. Oneonta. Building, park, books and endowment fund, the whole estimated at a value of $300,000, from H. E. Huntington. Randolph. Building, grounds and 3300 volumes from A. G. Dow, jr, the value of the gift being estimated at $15,000. Gift conditioned on pledge of village to appropriate $1000 a year for library support, which was duly voted. Rochester. Rochester University Library. $25,000 for library endowment from R. A. Sibley and $3000 for same purpose from Mrs Eugene Satterlee. Rome. Jervis Library. $1000 from unnamed donor. Salisbury Center. Estate worth $7000. subject to life interest of a sister, from Mary M. Pratt, for establishment and maintenance of a town library. Schuylerville. $2000 by will of C. E. Green, subject to a life interest of his widow. RECENT BOOKS WORTH BUYING MARY E. EASTWOOD, NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY Adventures of a woman hobo; by Ethel Lynn. Doran $1.50 Without money for the journey the author and her husband made the trip from Chicago to California on an old-fashioned tandem bicycle and after its demolition, by jumping freights. Full of interesting adventures, and inspiring in its recital of kindnesses received by the way. An American in the making; by M. E. Ravage. Harper $1.40 A Roumanian immigrant follows the process of his Americanization from his days as pedlar and sweat shop worker on the New York East side through his years in a Missouri college. Delightfully written and good humoredly critical of himself and America. Calvary Alley; by Alice Hegan Rice. tury $1.35 Cen A book which one reads, finds tremendously inspiring and then wants to tell others about. It consists of intimate, personal letters home. written by the author from dugouts on the Somme battlefront. They are notable for their gifted style but above all for the splendid courage and spiritual uplift which the war has infused in the writer. Christine; by Alice Cholmondeley, pseud. Macmillan $1.25 The letters of a talented English girl studying the violin just before and at the outbreak of the European war. Published as real letters but undoubtedly fictitious, they are remarkably well written, unite to form an engaging love story and give keen, witty and unsparing interpretations of German character, aspirations and state of mind. Days out and other papers; by Elisabeth Woodbridge. Houghton $1.25 Light essays in happy vein reflecting the author's attitude toward some of her personal experiences. (The) gold cache; by J. W. Schultz. Houghton $1.25 Thrilling adventures of Thomas Fox and his Blackfoot Indian friend, Pitamakan, who in 1861 journeyed from Fort Benton to the cliff dwellers of the south in search of buried treasure. Boys will enjoy the accounts of hunting, and fights with various hostile Indian tribes which occupied the days on the expedition. (The) high cost of living; by F. C. Howe. Scribner $1.50 An arresting indictment of monopolies pointing out by definite instances, how they are responsible for the increased cost of living through their control of natural resources, transportation, distribution and marketing and their exploitation of the farmer. Advocates government interference and control. (The) Indian drum; by William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer. Little $1.40 Engrossing mystery and detective story with excellent pictures of life on the Great Lakes, evidently drawn from first-hand acquaintance. Jan and her job; by L. A. Harker. Scribner $1.50 n Pretty story of two love affairs and two entertaining little children. Jan, their aunt who finds it her "job to bring them up shares the part of heroine in the tale with a charming friend who becomes their nurse. Scenes laid in India and England. Journal from our legation in Belgium; by Hugh Gibson. Doubleday $2.50 n A clear impression of what the first few months (JulyDecember 1914) of the war meant to Belgium is given in this interesting diary of the First Secretary of the American legation at Brussels. Life, art and letters of George Inness; by George Inness, jr. Century $4 "An artist's vivid portrait of his artist father, drawn with appreciative understanding, based on long_comradeship; delightful in style and interpretation." The many anecdotes illustrating his father's human qualities and methods of work make the narrative preeminently readable. Lilla; by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. Doran $1.35 New presentation of the old Enoch Arden problem in England during the present war. A tragic bit of human experience written with dignity, good taste and in excellent style. My mother and I; by E. G. Stern. Macmillan $1 Story of a Jewish girl told by herself. A remarkably faithful and touching picture of the tender relations between a Jewish immigrant mother of the ghetto and her daughter. The latter's Americanization through school, college, and marriage into an American home, makes an ever-widening gap between their lives and interests, bridged only by their affection for each other. My war diary; by Mary King Waddington. Scribner $1.50 Through the experiences of Madame Waddington so vividly related in her diary and letters August 1914October 1916, may be seen a picture of the life of French women in wartime. They describe her life in Paris, Mareuil and Hazebrouck, the difficulties of traveling, her anxiety over her son at the French front, organization of workshops and other relief work, typical Parisian street scenes, reports of German attacks and occupation of villages, etc. On the edge of the war zone; by Mildred Aldrich. Small $1.25 n Continuation of the letters in "A hilltop on the Marne." An intimate record of daily life in the little town of Huiry, France, during the three years of the war (September 1914April 1917) with soldiers coming and going and sometimes staying a week. War is heard and felt but not seen. Charmingly written, and an excellent picture of French peasant life under war conditions. Over the top; by A. G. Empey. Putnam $1.50 Graphic personal experiences of an American who served for eighteen months, till wounded, with the British in France. He relates his thrilling adventures as one Tommy might tell them to another, with a mixture of grimness, humor and pathos that makes it the best recent 1917 book of its kind. Contains a Tommy's dictionary of the trenches. Parnassus on wheels; by Christopher Morley. Doubleday $1.25 n A breezy and thoroughly enjoyable story of a spinster of thirty-nine, who impulsively buys a wagon van of books, and coached by a shy middle-aged professor, starts out on country roads for an adventure. The selling of the books proves a subordinate issue. Peter Sanders retired; by G. H. Gerould. Scribner $1.50 How Peter Sanders, booklover, gentleman and exgambler, forced from home by a zealous district attorney, seeks new interests abroad and in the United States and gradually readjusts his point of view and his life. A fine spirited story, fresh in its situations and keen but kindly in its characterization. (The) Plattsburgers; by A. S. Pier. Houghton $1.25 Ted Ripley's experiences at the Plattsburg camp for college boys. Pictures in a vivid, lively manner the pleasures, trials, strenuous activities and responsibilities of life in a military training camp; generally true to conditions existing in the first camp. Appeared in Youth's Companion. (The) red rugs of Tarsus; by Helen Davenport Gibbons. Century $1.25 n Letters describing the wholesale destruction of Armenians in 1909, written by the wife of a prominent young American historian, Herbert Adams Gibbons, from Tarsus where they were then living. Recent massacres of this present war (1917) make the book of special interest. Very readable, informal and personal. (An) uncensored diary; by Mrs Ernesta Drinker Bullitt. Doubleday $1.25 n Informal diary (May-September 1916) of the wife of an American war correspondent in Germany, Belgium and Austria-Hungary. She talked with many prominent persons, including von Bissing, Zimmerman and Dr Gertrude Bäumer, and had unusual opportunities for observing relief work. A sense of humor and pungency of expression make it interesting reading. Understood Betsy; by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Holt $1.30 Might well be on both adults' and children's shelves. A delightful story of the development of a little city girl from a nervous, self-centered state to a healthy and resourceful child. While it is full of hints to elders on how to develop self-reliance and thoughtfulness for others in children, the story of Betsy's life with her country relatives is related in so simple and amusing a way that children would think it written solely for them. GREELEY MEMORIAL VOLUME The order section of the State Library wishes to give notice to the registered libraries of the State that a limited number of copies of the Proceedings at the Unveiling of a Memorial to Horace Greeley at Chappaqua, N. Y., February 3, 1914, is available for distribution to such libraries and will be sent on due application. With the proceedings are included reports of other Greeley celebrations held in connection with the centennial of his birth, February 3, 1911. The volume was published by The University of the State of New York under the auspices of the State Historian in 1915. Distribution to libraries has been delayed by reason of some misunderstandings as to the number of copies to be available for this purpose. |