War libraries and allied studies . ht stuff and something excit-ing led in popularity at first, later there came requestsfor such things as a life of Gordon, Tennysons poems, awork on elementary law, and one on electrical engineer-ing. A secretary asked for at least twenty historiesof France, and wanted to know how many morecould be supplied later. The book-shops of Pariswere scoured for dictionaries, atlases, travel books,Kipling, Seeger, Service and Wells, for everything onthe battle of the Marne and on international relations. An unavoidable ignorance of what books would bemost wanted, how
War libraries and allied studies . ht stuff and something excit-ing led in popularity at first, later there came requestsfor such things as a life of Gordon, Tennysons poems, awork on elementary law, and one on electrical engineer-ing. A secretary asked for at least twenty historiesof France, and wanted to know how many morecould be supplied later. The book-shops of Pariswere scoured for dictionaries, atlases, travel books,Kipling, Seeger, Service and Wells, for everything onthe battle of the Marne and on international relations. An unavoidable ignorance of what books would bemost wanted, how quickly and in what quantity, anddifficulties of transportation from England and Americawere responsible for the extreme shortage of books atthe beginning. Last fall there was frequently notenough to go around. One man from a camp poppedhis head in at the book department and said with asmile: Just wanted to remind you, — twenty-fourbooks, twenty thousand men! Another man with asense of humor reported that he was in charge of two. 73 9?U -a CO a, fed O o 93 03 u -2 c Xo H = C8 CO 73CO Q 9373 S- 93 W > o U 1—1 *J > c 93 cc 73 w 60 eo .5 93 ^ c — 2< S 2 S. H o J g o
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