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Show DID NOT INCLUDE BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE IN LIST New York, June 18. The failure or Dr. Charles W. Eliot, recently presi- ' dent of Harvard university, to include the bible and Shakespeare in his list of twenty-five books for the liberal education ed-ucation of any man, is causing much comment in literary and religious circles. cir-cles. Heretofore no educator has published pub-lished a list of liberal reading without with-out incorporating these works. Few of the books mentioned by Dr. Eliot are popular with public library readers, apparently. Reports show that in the month of April there were 25,1 03 readers read-ers at the Astor and Lenox libraries In this city. There were also C32.43S readers to take books home from the various bianch libraries and 47.905 readers who use books at the brandies. In that immense total there are only four books on Dr. Eliot's list for which j there is any considerable demand. They are autobiographies of Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin, Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," Emerson's Essays, and Bacon's essays. . I |