FOR THE BLIND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17982, 28 January 1924, Page 8

FOR THE BLIND.

CONSIGNMENT OF BOOKS FROM ENGLAND. Mr E. J. Bell, librarian 6? the Canterbury Public Library, has'received a consignment of thirty-two volumes of books for tho blind from the National Library tor tfcjei Blind, in London. The Canterbury library was at one time subscribing to the Jubilee Institute in Auckland, receiving about thirty or forty volumes a year. Now tho library subscribes direct to the' National' Library in London. The first consignment of oooks are of the Braille type, and include the following vol-umes:—-"Adventures in Contentment" (2 volumes), "The Silver Box," "Tie Story of Francis Drake," "The Story of Nelson," "The Way of Poetry" (four volumes), "Quinneys" (three volumes), "Travels with a Donkey," "Sojenoe from an Easy Chair/' "The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol," "The Heart of O Sano San," "A Tour in Mongolia," "Tho Rajah's People" (three volumes), "Plunder," and "Tinted Venus."

In a covering letter, Mr 0. I. Prints, secretary and librarian to the National Library for the Blind, said that his library would be delighted to supply the Canterbury Public Library with books in embossed type. Their'subscriptioh to the funds had been deeply appreciated. The secretary also stated that he was sending a copy of their catalogue and supplements, together •with a list of stereotyped books marked -V- these last being those of which they had several copies and which could be more easify spared for sending out pf England than their hand-written books, of which they had usually but one or two copies. Tho writer said that they had forwarded a consignment of thrrty-two Braille volumes, but that it there were any readers of the Moon type in Ckristchurch, they would be delighted to send some books in that type as well. Consignments would be sent every three months without waiting for the return of previous books. The letter concluded with the hope that tne books, would be a pleasure to the readers, and that the National Library would look forward to receiving a long list of titles to be kept m nle to supply the Canterbury Library as occasion demanded. These books should prove of the greatest value to tho blind in Christ- ™ t, ;, tor th , ere can k® n <> doubt, as Mr Bell remarked to a "Prees" reporter, there must be a number of blind, some returned soldiers, in Chratcburcn whose sole pleasure is readin"