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...half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when such access to the library would be much appreciated...
...feet-is unbroken by divisions. A gallery makes the circuit of it and the walls within reaching distance of the floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with tables, to which the reader may freely take as many books as he requires, and as the dusk comes on, a tap of the bell from the librarian's room to the engineer puts...
...impetus by the formation of the American Canoe Association in 1880. This organization is now in a very flourishing condition ; it has about eight hundred members and includes clubs in every part of the country. Under its auspices is held every year a meet at some place easy of access, at which time races, etc., are indulged in, and canoe matters are talked over. This year it is to be at the Thousand Isles...
...reading, a general rummage among all writers who come favorably to one's notice. When the interest has been aroused by an allusion to an author whom one knows only by name, do not be satisfied with the account of a cyclopedia, nor with selected extracts, but get access to the author's complete works, read a bit here and a bit there, get some idea of what he has written. By this process the reader will be attracted by what best pleases him, and will at length learn to appreciate the qualities which attracted...
...small number of actual contests there is no doubt that these will be warmly contested, as many of the men who are to take part have appeared as contestants in former years. This names alone will be sufficient to attract a large audience and we think that the access of the meeting is assured. The remaining meetings will, we hope, bring our a much larger field of entries...