The home library . ous experiment in electricity on pageE, in pocket E. This Utility Scrap-book is at once thesimplest and the most comprehensive device for the useof those who wish to collect occasional cuttings, and whoare not likely to have a very large collection on any onesubject. It would be improved by the addition of two orthree extra pages, with ten or fifteen more pockets, to belabeled by each owner to suit his own individual , however, you do not wish a book for general scraps,but only for certain special subjects in which you aredeeply interested, then perhaps the Utility
The home library . ous experiment in electricity on pageE, in pocket E. This Utility Scrap-book is at once thesimplest and the most comprehensive device for the useof those who wish to collect occasional cuttings, and whoare not likely to have a very large collection on any onesubject. It would be improved by the addition of two orthree extra pages, with ten or fifteen more pockets, to belabeled by each owner to suit his own individual , however, you do not wish a book for general scraps,but only for certain special subjects in which you aredeeply interested, then perhaps the Utility Scrap-book isnot so good as Breeds Portfolio Scrap-book (Fig. 19).This is nothing more nor less than fifty strong manilapaper envelopes (15x23 centimetres, 6x9 inches) boundinto a book. The pockets are paged; and there is analphabetical index in front. Breeds Portfolio Scrap-bookis better suited to many persons than any other. There arefew people who are interested in more than fifty subjects. 84 THE HOME Fia. 19. or who are interested in subjects likely to need divisionsinto fifty pockets. It is more comely in shape than the Utility/^ or indeedthan any other form ofscrap-book ; and it cantake its place readilyon the book-shelf bythe side of the Un-abridged. Both theUtility Scrap-book andBreeds Portfolio Scrap-book can be procuredfrom the Library Bu-reau^ Boston, or its branches in other cities, the head-quarters for all library interests, and the dealers in num-berless devices to save the time, labor, and money ofliterary workers. It is from the Library Bureau that we get the verybest possible apparatus for preserving in order all sorts ofnewspaper cuttings and MS. notes. This is the ^Libra-ry Bureau Scrap-box (L. B. = Library Bureau), whichis at once a scrap-book capable of indefinite expansion, aclassified commonplace book, and an Index Rerum ar-ranged by every man to suit himself, with no waste ofspace on subjects which do not interest him. The Scrap-box is
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