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CONTENTS

PREFACE 5

HISTORY AND GENERAL DISCUSSION 11

Public Libraries and the Young. (U. S. Bureau of Education. Public Libraries in the United States, 1876, p. 412) 13

Boys' and Girls' Reading. (Library Journal, 1882, p. 182.).. 23

Reading of the Young. (U.S. Bureau of Education. Papers prepared for the World's Library Congress held at the Columbian Exposition; ed. by M. Dewey, 1896, p. 944.) ... 39

Caroline Maria Hewins.

How Library Work with Children Has Grown in Hartford and Connecticut. (Library Journal, 1914, p. 91.) 47

Caroline Maria Hewins.

A Chapter in Children's Libraries. (Library Journal, 1913, P. 20.) 65

Alice M. Jordan

The Children's Library in New York. (Library Journal, 1887, p. 185.) 69

The Work for Children in Free Libraries. (Library Journal, 1897, p. 679.) 75

The Growing Tendency to Over-Emphasize the Children's Side. (Library Journal, 1908, p. 135.) 91

Library Work with Children. (A. L. A. Proceedings, 1911, p. 240.) 99