The home library . Fig. 27. by the side of other books, for the delicate bindings of theother books will suffer. Put all such hedgehogs of booksin drawers or in trays by themselves. Never leave books or pamphlets out of sight in drawersfor a long time without examination to see that the micehave not made a nest in the drawer out of the margins ofthe books. HINTS HERE AND THERE. 117 Never bind in one yolume a lot of miscellaneous pam-phlets on incongruous subjects and of odd sizes. Whenyou can afford it, bind eyery pamphlet separately. Theonly exceptions to this rule are serials, annuals, serie
The home library . Fig. 27. by the side of other books, for the delicate bindings of theother books will suffer. Put all such hedgehogs of booksin drawers or in trays by themselves. Never leave books or pamphlets out of sight in drawersfor a long time without examination to see that the micehave not made a nest in the drawer out of the margins ofthe books. HINTS HERE AND THERE. 117 Never bind in one yolume a lot of miscellaneous pam-phlets on incongruous subjects and of odd sizes. Whenyou can afford it, bind eyery pamphlet separately. Theonly exceptions to this rule are serials, annuals, series ofreports of one society, etc., which may be bound togetherwhenever a sufficient number have appeared to make ashapely volume. Pamphlets are best kept from dust andin order in pamphlet-cases (Figs. 27 and 28), which are. Fig. 28. paper boxes shaped like a book, and which, like a book,may bear their contents labeled on their backs. Never let books lean sideways for a long time, as itracks the covers. If the absence of one or more booksfrom a shelf makes it diflBcult to keep the remaining vol-umes upright, insert a wooden block in the place of themissing books. It is well to have a supply of ash or wal-nut blocks resembling in size and shape an octavo volume. 118 THE HOME LIBRAEY. If these are at hand, one of them can be substituted forany book taken down, whether for study or to lend. Alittle slip of silicated paper glued onone side of this block would enable arecord to be kept of the date when thebook was taken away, and of the pur-pose. When there are only a fewbooks on a shelf, the best block tocause these to stand upright is madeby sawing diagonally in half a cube ofwood six inches every way. The Libra-ry Bureau supply a neat clamped sup-port (Fig. 29) for broken rows of best book-rack fo
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