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Show bbiiKS FOR BLIND J11P IN DELANO H Standard and Modern Fiotion Is H Being Called For. SUPPLY CUT BY HIGH COST H eCommlttee for Men Dllnded In Battle , H MaUt Appeal for Publication of B More Books In Raised Type Aver- H ttgo N'ovil la Done In Braille for M t10 1,100 Active Readers Use One H Library for the Dllnd In New York. H Alt nvcr (lie country nn amazing In. B vri'Uisc Is noted by Illjrnrlniia In tliu H tli'imiml fur books for tlio blind, no H cording to n recent statement of tho H cciri:iry of tlio Cotninlttco for Men H Utliukvl in Battle, which makes Its H Bier.ilijuiirters nt 111 i:ast Fifty-ninth H street, Now York, which Is ranking an H iiiMiil for tho publication of more Hj SiooIjh In raised type. This, It Is B jiolntnl nut, Is not only duo to the fact HBh that Hie ''nltcd States now has scores H rj( war lillnd, but also to the growing H Jok1u of the blind to make tho widest H jios.iilJR use of the public libraries H tvlu'iv such books are obtainable free. H The revised Braille, eays tho com- H tulttce, generally adopted as a stand- H n nl two years ago, Is beginning to be H uoh widely studied and used by tho M sightless. Textbooks and educational H tuatlcr no Jonger fill almost the entire H Held of books offered for tlio blind H icucler, which was Uio case at one H time. The blind reader now has be- H fore lilm nn over-Increasing number H f story books of nil kinds. The total B figure of raised letter books published H yearly Is placed at approximately 250,- H -and of this number a largo percentage H mow cater to tho entertainment of the B lJmboldcncd by tho Increasing mini' HBV lier of titles In tho field of modern B miction nnd verse, nppeals have now HBl been made, snys tho secretary, not H -only for more Dickens nnd Walter H Scott and Dnudct, but also for more H -Charles M. Schwab and H. O. Wltwer. H The last mimed, whoso books nro re- R jilete with modern slang, received a H tetter tho other duy written In revlsod H Brnlllo by a blind gltl, asking for the B -early publication In raised letter of his B new book, "The Leather Pushers." Sir. HBl Wltwer was very much Interested and HBl -caused his answer to bo dono Into HBl . Braille nlso. "Tho Mirrors of Wash- H lngton" has recently been asked for H fcy some who are Interested In political H gossip, who hnvo read tho London H jirototypo of tfio book. Hj Revised Brallfo Widely Uted. H It Is the opinion of the Committee H tor Men Blinded In Battlo that re- H vised Braille will probably In time H supersede all other foiais of hand read- H 0ng In this country, with tho execp- H Hlon of ono other sort of raised print, H -which Is formed In Imitation of the B victual English alphabet. For those H -who lose their Bight after thoy hnvo B learned to read this last Is, in many HHl cases, the easiest kind of touch letter HBl to H "The blind have a greater Interest H In libraries than any other class be- H cause tho distribution of raised letter B liooks Is of necessity In most cases HB -free. They nro quite costly to make HBl 3iud their circulation is not large. The HBl average popular novel costs about $10 HBl to produce In Braille, and yet one day HBl recently three of the four copies of a HBj popular novel were out when request HBh was mude for It at tho library here," H said tho secretary. H Miss Lucille Goldthwalto, in charge B -of the Library for the Blind In the HBs Hew York Public library, which has DBe tho largest collection of works In the HBf JirnUlo system In the United States, HB says that there Is a tremendous uecd H for more books In raised typo for H lillnd readers. H At tho .Library for tho Blind In the H lilg Central building on Fifth nvenue, H "New Vork, It wns suld that blind per- H sons rend tho samo kln.d of books that H seeing peopl'o read that Is, speaking H In quantity, fiction first and other H classes following. A popular book, If H 4ion-llctlon class, like James' "Psy- H chology," Is popular, likewise, with H blind readers. In tho early days of H books for the blind the prevnlent Idea H was to try to give them none but rell- fH Clous works, to the exclusion of all j other literature. However, as the II- H tirarlnn pointed out, naturally, "they H like religious books no more nnd no Jess tbnn tlio rest of us." H Tim material which the llbrury can H uy Is very limited. That Is to say, H ho actual nmount of material avail- M iiblo In Braille Is limited. Blind read- H ers are greatly In need of more books H of all sorts. It takes three or four M Mg volumes to make one novel the way H these rulsed-type books nre printed, H which accounts for tho high cost, It H ivns pointed out H 1,100 Dllnd Used Library, B Active readers to the number of H 1.1C0 used tho Library for the Blind H In the Central building during 1020, H the circulation of books for the year M liclng 35,807 volumes. The collection H con.nlns more than 12,000 volumes H Iirlutcd In the American BrallJe, Moon. H TSevf York point, lino letter, revised H Bi-atllc, Krado one nnd a half, and re- IHI lsed Braille, grude two or European M scores, raised for the study of blind M jmisic readers, and tho library atso af- H ords an opportunity for Its renders- M to Btudy" nil embossed magazines and H All magazines In Ink print relating to H work wtth the blind. H Tlie IJbrnry for the Illnd, which b a brunch of tho circulation department depart-ment of tho New York Public llbrnry, Is In room 110 on the first floor of tho Central building. It Is open to renders rend-ers on week days from nine o'clock In the morning until five o'clock In tho afternoon. Bending matter may bo borrowed by blind persons who nre residents of New York city or who live In the stnto of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut. Connecti-cut. Books mny bo called for at the library or tho blind reader mny avnll himself of a speclnl service which arranges, ar-ranges, for their being sent free through the mnlls to tho nearest post olllcu or postal stntlon. The library nlso lins available for tho use of residents of New York city a limited number of desk nnd pocket inblels for writing Braille and New York point types. Alphabet sheets la any type and printed nnd embossed catalogues of books In tho collection also are available for distribution. The uso of this library Is reported to bo steadily Increasing yenr by jear nnd It Is generally In need of hooka. Tho collection Is maintained largely by n fund left for this purpose by the Into Benjamin Stephens. Tho Llbrnry for tho Blind Is a development of the work of the New York Free Circulating Circulat-ing Llbrnry for the Blind, which wns founded by Illchnrd Randall Ferry In June, 1805, nnd became a part of the Now York Public library In February, 1003. |