Show CARNEGIE ON FICTION Wot Wol Not ld Not Deprive Book A V Lovers of Romantic Literature 1 NEW YORK March 14 Andrew H.-Andrew Andrew Carnegie was was was' the chief guest and speaker k r last lat night at the s seventh annual annual annual an an- nual dinner dirner of the Library club Among the other guests were librarians of or New ew York and vicinity Mr Mh Carnegie Carnegie Carnegie Car Car- negie on the subject of libraries for rural communities said saidI I have been much gratified by the many applications of small c communities oln in ln tile the Vest for libraries And in this Ibis cam campaign mt m- m will ll say that as eel I knew I would ot tA havie havO t the pleasure I U ril here e tonight I felt t I ought to do something h to de deserve de- de serve serva the pleasure s ol I I haVe rf dealt with about it fort forty of these applications today i and am glad to th say that Iri iii all al except perhaps two cates tes I I have s seen aSen en my way ay to grant them We hear a great deal about the Influence u ence enco of fiction I have considered the case most roost carefully I would not deprive the lover of books of or his fiction Any sort of or book except one which exercises a bad Influence Is better than no book But I believe that If it a a man gives his fortune to endow libraries he might do dowell o owell well to bar fiction less less' than three years year old Mr Carnegie quoted Lord A Acton ton as assaying assaying assaying saying that of all aU books rt since the thi world began only tOO could lay claim to Immortality And AndY Y yet let t said Mr Carnegie an a author thor Is worth th the gratitude of th the World If he can make an imprint on his own g generation |