. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. Sunday.^ Thefirst printed catalogue of the booksin this library was published in1837; it was a little three and ahalf by six inch, sixteen pagepamphlet, and catalogued 579 vol-umes. Care has been taken, under its. Rilev first librarian. recent management, to have thispublic town library what its found-ers intended and wdiat its title im-plies,—namely, public, as referringto the entire body of the people com-posing the inhabitants of the town,—without special reference to any oner
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. Sunday.^ Thefirst printed catalogue of the booksin this library was published in1837; it was a little three and ahalf by six inch, sixteen pagepamphlet, and catalogued 579 vol-umes. Care has been taken, under its. Rilev first librarian. recent management, to have thispublic town library what its found-ers intended and wdiat its title im-plies,—namely, public, as referringto the entire body of the people com-posing the inhabitants of the town,—without special reference to any onereligious, political, or social class;public, not alone in the fact that allhave free access thereto, but public,in having those books which thatpublic read. This is as it should bein all our public libraries. When theword public or town is used, as here, 1 Picturesque Peterborough, by Edward French,M. D., Granite Monthly, volume is, page 228. PETERBOROUGH TOWN LIBRARY. 287 with reference to property, it de-scribes the use to which the propert}^ought to be applied, and the charac-ter in which it must be held. If, inits management and the selection ofbooks, the demands of any particu-lar class is regarded to the exclusion,or without an equal consideration, ofthe requirements of another class ofthe taxpa
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