Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-14 | Page 16 | Public Reads Serious Books

PUBLIC READS t SERIOUS BOOKS Librarian Grace Harris Says Accusation Not Borne Out Here The accusation that the American public does not read a serious book ;t 1 jear and th.it public libraries nr patronized pat-ronized solely by children and reader read-er of light fiction Is not borne .mt by the records of the Carnegie Frew library .Miss ('.race Harris, the llbrar- lan. said today. A great variety ofi persons have shown their interest. In books very far removed from fiction land that light reading supposed to be In demand, she said 'The record of one copy of Walls' Outline of History' during the past Fix months shows i wide range of, I readers. During that time, the work has been read by two engineers, two Itenchers. a foreman, a mechanic , ;i iprlnter, two dentists, a clerk, a mer-i chant, a bookkeeper, a railway shopman, shop-man, a salesman, two students and, jfour housewives. "During the same period Strachey's : Queen Victoria,' has been read by a' j cashier, a broker a physician, two school principals, two students, a Jour-i Inallst, and three unemployed omen ! " The Mirrors of Washington.' nn-Other nn-Other recent book of Importance, has been read by three te&Ohers, four stu-1 jdents. two physicians, a railway cleric. I a salesman, a stengrapher. a Journal-; i-4 and an engineer" "Robinson's Mind In the Making.' On the relation of Intelligence to social i reform. Thomson's 'Outline of Bciem 6,' Garland's ' Son of the Middle Border, ' The Americanization of Kdward B . i k . ' , I Van Loon s 'Story of Mankind." Shack-h Shack-h ton s South' and Franck's 'Working 'Work-ing North From Patagonia' arc also titles of worth-while books that are1 !in constant demand " Mlsa Harris said