. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. the old building and its unsuit-ability for the rapid expansionnecessary in a State the new well-planned build-ing, much better work will bepossible. It will be the quiet homeof the earnest student, rich or poor,old or young, who seeks for know-ledge and mental improvement. We pride ourselves on oursystem of public schools, by theaid of which every child is enabledto get a good primary educationas his share of the commonheritage, and we have made Ihc opportunities of education as broad as a generousParliament can make them. I
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. the old building and its unsuit-ability for the rapid expansionnecessary in a State the new well-planned build-ing, much better work will bepossible. It will be the quiet homeof the earnest student, rich or poor,old or young, who seeks for know-ledge and mental improvement. We pride ourselves on oursystem of public schools, by theaid of which every child is enabledto get a good primary educationas his share of the commonheritage, and we have made Ihc opportunities of education as broad as a generousParliament can make them. In doing this, however, we but place the key ofknowledge in the students hand. The corollary or complement of the public schoolmust be the treasury which that key ojiens—the Public Library, which will carryon the w^ork the schools have begun. At that critical period when good and evilinfluences are contending in the soul of youth, when temptations are strongest, thejwwer of resistance weakest, we should place all the incitements, all the allurements,. W. L. VERNON, (rovernnient Architect. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. ^9 all the opportunities, on the side of good. We should provide mental pabulum forall classes but the vicious and the literary trifler. We should offer our boys andgirls the lives of men and women whose deeds have won them true glory, and whommankind delight to honour. We should place in our youths hands the story ofour nation, with its noble achievements and its illustrious men. We should givethem the chance of associating in spirit with all the greatest and noblest thinkersand workers that have adorned the worlds history. For every pure taste, for everyworthy ambition, the Public Library can provide; towards every aspiration forgood it can give an impetus. In the busy arena of to-day not only the scholar, butthe man of business, the merchant, the professional man, the mechanic, touches lifeat a hundred points. Success in any avenue
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