. The library, the school and the child . it is safe to say that a few years will seeall the counties instituting as sane and beneficial systemsas the two mentioned above. LIBRARIES FRANCE was early in providing books for her publicschools. In 1792 Napoleon ordered that school librariesbe established in all the schools, and the government dis-tributed books from time to time. During the first thirdof the 19th century more than a million books had beensent to the primary schools; but teachers were indiffer-ent and the supervision inadequate, with the result thatby 1850 all these li
. The library, the school and the child . it is safe to say that a few years will seeall the counties instituting as sane and beneficial systemsas the two mentioned above. LIBRARIES FRANCE was early in providing books for her publicschools. In 1792 Napoleon ordered that school librariesbe established in all the schools, and the government dis-tributed books from time to time. During the first thirdof the 19th century more than a million books had beensent to the primary schools; but teachers were indiffer-ent and the supervision inadequate, with the result thatby 1850 all these libraries had disappeared. In 1862 an-other law was passed ordering libraries for all boysschools, with a book-case in each class-room. A specialcommission was appointed in 1865 to regulate the char-acter of the books supplied and to compile books are secured from time to time from the Min-ister of Public Instruction, from funds raised by muni-cipal councils, from donations, and from school funds. i.!iu.\RTi-:s 191. 192 THE LIBRARY, SCHOOL. AND niiLD All Ixxjks are i)urchase(l from a single tirni, large dis-counts being thereby obtained. In 1914 there were 50,000inihlic school libraries in France, containing in all over8,000,000 volumes, and circulating more than 0,000,-000 yearly. 1 In GERMANY onl} two states have school librarylaws, and these are merely suggestive. The large citiesha\e good childrens libraries, the first of which wasopened in Berlin in In 1907, Dr. Palmgren, of Stockholm, SWEDEN,visited the L^nited States to study the American methodsof handling children in the library. This led to the estab-lishment, on his return, of a childrens room patternedafter the American idea. This has proved a great suc-cess.^ Christiana, NORWAY, built a new library, with chil-drens room on the American plan in 1915. Bergen hastwo childrens rooms, conducts story-hours, and hasestablished branches in many of its schools.* Farrington, Primary School Syste
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