A librarian's open shelf: essays on various subjects

ix, 344 p. 24 cm Mainly reprinted from various sources Do readers read.--What makes people read.--The passing of the possessive; a study of book titles.--Selective education.--The uses of fiction.--The value of association.--Modern educational methods.--Sme economic features of libraries.--Simon Newcomb: America's foremost astronomer.--The companionship of books.--Atomic theories of energy.--The advertisement of ideas.--The public library, the public schol, and the social center movement.--The systematization of violence.--The art of re-reading.--History and heredity.--What the flag stands for.--The people's share in the public library.--Some tendencies of American thought.--Drugs and the man.--How the community educates itself.--Clubwomen's reading.--Books for tired eyes.--The magic casement.--A word to believers