THE HOME LIBRARY
The crossword puzzle has been useful in making dictionaries more common", but in every home there should also be an encyclopaedia, a concordance to the Bible, an atlas, a book of quotations, and a few other volumes of general reference, as well as a selection of books for general reading and culture, including biography, travel, history, and good fiction, writes Mr. Edward Green, chief librarian of Halifax Public Library in the Municipal Journal. It is lamentable to discover so many, even middle-aged people, the products of popular education, who are quite ignorant of such classics as "Cranford," "Don Quixote," "Adam Bede;" "Vanity Fair," and books of equal rank in other categories. Possibly some have had to read such works as "set" books in school and so cultivated a distaste for them in later years. In any case, it is important to remember that good reading is an important factor in education.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1939, Page 20
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THE HOME LIBRARY
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1939, Page 20
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