THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18241, 27 November 1924, Page 12

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

TO TEE EDITO?. OF "THC PRESS." .Sir. —I have just read, with great interest, your article in to-d-y's paper on the Public Library or Christchi'.rcli. and it eifccurages me to sek yf/u to use your influence in one or two little "natters ■which, it seems to me. should Lc of importance to us all. First, "is it not a dUzrfce to our citv that in the circulating department i f our library there is no lire or Bishop Pattisnn. a man whom the early settlers taught their children to regard with the loving reverence that a ci this no'-le. unselfish Imp proves liim to so richly have deserved '' Sec-ond. a sti'.dv ci Bisliod Pattison s life teaches n.s how much New Zealand i;wes to Cliarlotte Mary Yonge, the author of "The Dairy Ch-jn." . etc. Should not a complete edition 01 her ( :'-i;!endid novels be iound in every | Zealand library? j Third. I supr s.e I prove what a thor- ; ouchlv rld-laslii'' ned woman I am when I plead for a conu.leic edition, in print* sufficiently clear to be read by eyes r~ little dim. of the works <"f such writers as the Bronte sisters. Su ■ "W'altT Scott. Oharie-'- 3'iekcns. l ■ i Thackeray. and last. but. by no means ■ Ge-ir<ze Ma'-douald. —"i curs. etc.. AN OLD >I-:rri.Eß's DAVGIiTEH. j Nor. 26th. 1924. j