. St. Nicholas [serial]. mnmm CUTLERY AND TOOLS The Recollection of QUALITY RemainsLong After the PRICE is Forgotten. (Trade Mark RceUtered) -E. C. SIMMONS. 1. THE BCDK MAN I wOiXDEK if you have heard of the great ef-fort that is being made this year to raise thestandard of boys and girls reading and todrive ol)jectionable juvenile literature out ofthe book market —particularly the silly, impos-sible, exaggerated, nerve-racking, imagina-tion-distorting thrillers? Mr. Franklin , Chief Scout Librarian of the BoyScouts of America, is behind the movement,and he has succeeded in making i
. St. Nicholas [serial]. mnmm CUTLERY AND TOOLS The Recollection of QUALITY RemainsLong After the PRICE is Forgotten. (Trade Mark RceUtered) -E. C. SIMMONS. 1. THE BCDK MAN I wOiXDEK if you have heard of the great ef-fort that is being made this year to raise thestandard of boys and girls reading and todrive ol)jectionable juvenile literature out ofthe book market —particularly the silly, impos-sible, exaggerated, nerve-racking, imagina-tion-distorting thrillers? Mr. Franklin , Chief Scout Librarian of the BoyScouts of America, is behind the movement,and he has succeeded in making it an impor-tant question for all boys and girls, all parents,and all publishers, book-sellers, and librarians. How important this matter of childrensreading is may be seen from certain factsgathered by Mr. Mathiews himself. For in-stance, the school children of Rochester, N. Y.,— a typical city—upon investigation werefound to spend much the largest percentage oftheir time from Saturday to Monday in read-ing. Atiother investigation made of the hob-bies of 923 boys showed that boys spend moretime in reading than in any other the re
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