Arbor day and library evening, April 26, 1895 . the sunshine, I hide in the leaves. My cheeks are so rosy,My pulp is so white, I know I am juicy-Do, please, take a bite. —Selected. Song :—Kind Words Can Never Die.—Page 155. THOUGHTS IN A LIBRARY. Speak low! tread softly through these halls ; Here Genius lives enshrined ;Here reign in silent majesty, The monarchs of the mind. A mighty spirit-host they come From every age and clime;Above the buried wrecks of years They breast the tide of Time. And in their presence-chamber here They hold their regal round them throng a noble train. The
Arbor day and library evening, April 26, 1895 . the sunshine, I hide in the leaves. My cheeks are so rosy,My pulp is so white, I know I am juicy-Do, please, take a bite. —Selected. Song :—Kind Words Can Never Die.—Page 155. THOUGHTS IN A LIBRARY. Speak low! tread softly through these halls ; Here Genius lives enshrined ;Here reign in silent majesty, The monarchs of the mind. A mighty spirit-host they come From every age and clime;Above the buried wrecks of years They breast the tide of Time. And in their presence-chamber here They hold their regal round them throng a noble train. The gifted and the great. O child of Earth! when round thy path The storms of life when thy brothers pass thee by With stern, unloving eyes. Here shall the poets chant for theeTheir sweetest, loftiest lays. And prophets wait to guide thy stepsIn Wisdoms pleasant ways. Come, with these God-anointed kings Be thou companion here;And in the mighty realm of mind Thou shalt go forth a peer! —Anne C. Lynch Botta. LIBRARY DEPARTMENT. 21. LIBRARY DEPARTMENT. School and Circulating Libraries. The school library question has givenme much anxiety, and 1 presume allsuperintendents have the same dis-turbed experience. Knowing the pleasure and profit tobe derived from reading, and realizingthe overwhelming evidence in favor ofgood books, from such illustrious menas are quoted hereafter, I feel that anextra effort should be made to encour-age the habit of utilizing spare time inthe society of elevating literature. Iknow of no State holding out suchliberal inducements for the establish-ment and maintenance of school librariesas New Jersey. Any community notattracted by such generosity on the partof the State, should be aroused fromits lethargy. It is painful to see somany districts allow years to go bywithout securing the State appropria-tion, and others very irregular in obtaining it. The whole secret is thelack of system on the part of those entrusted with the management ofthis
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