Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 212
, another line re-turning them. It was a busy room —a boy in acorner looking over a college story, a girl inanother lost in some adventure. Any questionthey might ask was answered by the librarian,whose special duty is to know the books andto tell which are best to read. If a boy wantssome sea… … A ROOF READING-ROOM. R1VINGT0N STREET BRANCHOF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. The general idea seems to be that a library is,on the one hand, a kind of storehouse for books,and, on the other, a place from which books maybe drawn. But this is only one part of what alibrary means. It is also a room in…
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