Show I CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF OLD LOSE FLAVOR CHICAGO H March tz 3 By tJ U P. P P.-Dp P. D tie YO you remember how as s a boy you used use to thrill to the books of Horatio AlI Alger Alger Al Al- ger and Oliver and lay awake a at I night to pore over the tho pages of at Mayne Reid I The children of today have ceased to read Oliver Optic Half of them nev never heard of Mayne Reid No up to boy shows any Interest In Horatio Alger Al Alger Al Al- ger As for Elsie DInsmore the prim young person whose Sunday school ad adventures adventures adventures ad- ad ventures used to keep the girls o of twenty years ago all worked up sh she Is dead and burled under the dust o of 11 library shelves These were the revelations laid before before be be- fore the convention of the SubscrIption Subscript t tion Book Publishers that Is making a survey of tho the book field to guide It In its campaigns Miss hiss Adah F T. in charge of ot the Thomas Hughes room for tor childrens children's chill chil- chil I l drens dren's book In the Chicago public library li- li says youngsters of today are more taken up with books of history biography science radio airplanes an and Books general kr by V Information Mayne t Reid ld Oliver r Optic and Horatio Alger said Miss atlas Whit Whit- Whitcomb comb are almost never called for The library copies which were worn out by a former generation of boys are not being replaced There was apt a single call for Elsie DInsmore books last year Girls of today do not know knol Elsie and I do not believe they would care for her If it they did die |