The great city Branch, A. H. To a New York shop-girl dressed for Sunday Firkins, Chester. On a sub-way express Whitman, Walt. Keep your splendid silent sun (Last stanza of "Give ine Arnold, Matthew. The forsaken merman Coe, A. R. The turn of the road Dickinson, Emily. "There is no frigate like a book" Kipling, Rudyard. The bell-buoy Lanier, Sidney. Ballad of trees and the master Sill, E. R. The bellows-boy Swinburne, A. C. At parting Tennyson, Alfred. Bugle song Copies of the catalog, in ink print, the first full list of the library for the blind which has been printed in ten years, were sent out in June to its readers. Great literature available to blind. The United States Bureau of Education is conducting through its Home Education Division a nationwide, systematic course of reading in the greater literature of the world. Dr P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, is in charge of this course and will be assisted by many eminent college professors and will also have the cooperation of many librarians. It is gratifying to note that most of the titles in this carefully prepared course are already available for blind readers. Of "The Great Literary Bibles" all the books of the Bible and the plays of Shakspere mentioned and Goethe's Faust may be found in embossed type, besides several books of the Aeneid and the Iliad, an adaptation of the Odyssey, Paradise lost, and the Inferno from the Divine comedy. In reading course no. 6, out of the "Thirty Books of Great Fiction," 21 are available for the blind and in course no. 8 (American literature) there are 15 out of the 25 listed. In the miscellaneous reading courses for girls and for boys, the blind girls will have 15 out of the 22 and the blind boys 19 out of 28. These figures surely attest the care with which books have been chosen for embossed printing. Gifts. Besides Miss Nina Rhoades's generous gift of 25 copies of Mrs Marks's The Wolf of Gubbio, the Xavier Free Publication Society for the Blind sent 18 books; the Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass., sent 5; the Society for Promotion of Church Work among the Blind, Philadelphia, 2; the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, Pittsburg, 2; and the Illinois School for the Blind, Jacksonville, 1. Embossed type catalogs of the English Braille collection and of the music in American Braille and New York point were received from the New York Public Library. Mr William B. Wait sent a New York point copy of his Examination of the report of the Uniform Type Committee of January 1913, and a copy of Dresser's Living by the spirit. Mrs James McDonnell, one of the library's readers, sent 9 books and 3 pamphlets and Miss Myrtle Crego, another reader, sent I book. Serials. The following serials in embossed type are regularly received, twelve of them being gifts: American Braille Church Items, monthly except July and August. (Gift) Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, monthly. (Gift) English Braille Canada's Premier Magazine for the Blind, monthly. (Gift) Progress, monthly Moon Moon Magazine for the Blind, monthly New York point Canada's Premier Magazine for the Blind, monthly. (Gift) Catholic Transcript for the Blind, monthly. Christian Record, monthly (two copies). (Gift) Lux Vera, monthly (Gift) monthly. (Gift) Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, Circulation. The magazines had a circulation of 1627 for the year. The circulation of books, music and magazines in each of the five types was as follows: American Braille ... ... I 076 Books with the largest circulation October 1, 1914-September 30, 1915 COPIES 1914 1915 Porter, Mrs E. (H.). Pollyanna. 1914.. Porter, W. S.. More stories by O. Henry. 1914. Trask. In the vanguard. 1914. Davis. In the fog. 1914.. Harrison. Burnett. Aldrich.. Clarke. Maeterlinck. Blue bird. 1914.. 1913... Porter, Mrs G. (S.)... Marks. V. V.'s eyes. 1914. Wolf of Gubbio. 1914.. Village life in America. 1914. 1914. b5 23 64 22 22 32 20 Chesterton. Innocence of Father Brown. Collier. England and the English. Hannay. General John Regan. 1915.. b18 Allen.... Kentucky cardinal. 1911.. Smith.. Arm-chair at the inn. 1913 5553 MIDI2222 1232 522 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2 2 5 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 a Not in circulation in 1914. Autobiography of an individualist. 1914 b Circulated only part of the year. Exhibits. Exhibits from the library were sent to the exposition at San Francisco, to the state fair at Syracuse and to the Warren county fair at Warrensburg. The library's booth proved an interesting feature of the exhibit of work for and of the blind, which was held last March in the auditorium of the Education Building, by the New York State Commission for the Blind. A permanent exhibit of books for the blind is kept in the corridor on the first floor of the Education Building and attracts many visitors. |