Show READ FOR OTHER PEOPLE mon who ransack jtb libraries 1 for the tb benefit of public speakers lisi visitors torB to the astor library have ob served that certain persons appear here with great regularity and two or bree faces seem to be as permanent a feature of the place as the busts and white columns these regulars are there at all hours of the day and at all seamons of the year one man in par ocular seems to spend all his time within the walls of the library A man whose work on a c certain ertain subject took him regularly to the library made an effort to see what subject was W absorbing one visitor whom he had bad noticed at work whenever he be had been in the library during the two yea years preceding for a month he observed the man aud ff found ithe that during that time the man had bad been reading industriously triou sly volumes relating to tour four different subjects jeet and taking copious notes trow fawn them he headid did zot not look like a sum am who was reading for the pur fra in of general cultivation and the boots ho had bad teen been I 1 using varied as widby in subjects as aie ahe isy of the sp spanish lab dm drama and the ibieta physics the hopel hopelessness of learel learning anything about the edans occupation nia bu own observe ion led lea thia the inter bated to ask officials who the tha then than he a tb at t i Z reading and investigating necessary tor for particular work usually this man and others like him are called upon to dig out only the points relating to certain phases of a subject but often their work extends over a much wider range they are known to the officials ot of the library and in this way they are brought into contact with perso persons as who are looking about for somebody to undertake the required labor of reference and reading new york sun |