. St. Nicholas [serial]. some-times these boys and girls are the best of story-tellers, for there is special joy in making othersfeel the same interest, the same excitement, thesame sympathy, you yourself have felt over a heroor a deed. A bench before a fireplace gives one a feelingof coziness, whether the opening be aglow withflame, or a mass of green or of dogwood. Usuallythe walls and ceiling of the room are warm incolor, and by degrees the libraries are beingdecorated with pictures which are full of imagesone must love as well as know. The libraries arethus making homes for young readers,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. some-times these boys and girls are the best of story-tellers, for there is special joy in making othersfeel the same interest, the same excitement, thesame sympathy, you yourself have felt over a heroor a deed. A bench before a fireplace gives one a feelingof coziness, whether the opening be aglow withflame, or a mass of green or of dogwood. Usuallythe walls and ceiling of the room are warm incolor, and by degrees the libraries are beingdecorated with pictures which are full of imagesone must love as well as know. The libraries arethus making homes for young readers, to whom abook is something real. Take the comic supple-ment of a paper, and put it by the side of theJeanne dArc pictures by Boutet de Monvel. Youwill feel the difference. In the Boston Library the childrens reference-room contains a fine ceiling decoration calledThe Triumph of Time, while for the reading-room the late Howard Pyle painted eighteenwater-colors dealing with incidents in the career Igi2.] THE BOOK LINE 743. CENTRAL CHILDREN S ROOM, CARNEGIE LIBRARY, PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. of Washington, and with characteristics of colo-nial life. The childrens department in the PittsburgLibrary consists of three rooms—one for study,one for reference and reading, and one for gen-eral circulation. The first object you are sureto notice as you enter is a drinking-fountain,which sends a thin stream of water into themouth of any youngster who presses the silvertop. This in itself is great fun, as the picture onanother page will show. But no sooner doesone go beyond the librarians desk, into the spa-cious room, with its low book-shelves filled withinviting books, than there is a different sort ofthirst to satisfy—the thirst for something goodto read. There are legions of fairy tales, bat-talions of nature books, companies of storiesranged within easy reach; it is simple to findwhat you want in this way, or to refer to thecard catalogue, which every one should learn touse. If you w
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