item: #1 of 15 id: 13430 author: Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) title: A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects date: None words: 102045 flesch: 63 summary: Do the readers of library books in New York shun the public-press, or do they pay scant heed to what they read therein? Another somewhat noteworthy fact is that of the 449 persons who sought the library by advice of some one, only 89 were sent by teachers. Even in the more common cases where formal training is absolutely necessary, access to other books than text-books is an aid to selection both qualitative and quantitative. keywords: action; american; art; association; body; books; business; case; children; club; community; course; day; desire; education; energy; fact; fiction; form; general; good; hand; history; ideas; instance; interest; kind; knowledge; librarian; libraries; library; life; literature; man; matter; means; men; mind; modern; need; new; paper; people; persons; place; point; present; public; public library; read; reader; reading; reason; result; right; school; subject; things; thought; time; type; use; value; view; want; way; women; words; work; world; written; years cache: 13430.txt plain text: 13430.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 16224 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One date: None words: 110120 flesch: 71 summary: Verard_, folio, UPON VELLUM, in the Royal Library at Paris, iii 130 ---- ---- 1496, _Verard,_ folio, UPON VELLUM, in the Imperial Library at Vienna, iii 328 _Lascaris Gram. M. Lesné thus wrathfully dilates upon this supposition: Je me garderai bien de passer sous silence la dernière partie de votre Lettre; _un bruit assez étrange est venu jusqu'à vous_; et Charles Lewis doit vous quitter pour quelque temps pour établir en France une école de reliure d'apres les principes du gôut anglais; mais vous croyez, dites-vous, que ce projet est sûrement chimérique, ou que, si on le tentait, il serait de courte durée. keywords: ------in; 4to; 8vo; abbey; abbé; account; air; approach; arsenal; author; bayeux; bon; books; building; c'est; caen; castle; cathedral; century; chapter library; character; choir; church; city; collection; copy; country; dans; date; day; de la; de rouen; des; description; dinner; door; edition; effect; england; english; est; evening; eye; falaise; feet; figure; folio; form; france; french; friend; general; good; grand; half; hand; head; henry; houses; iii; interior; left; length; les; letter; library; licquet; life; long; looking; manner; monastery; monsieur; morning; munich; nave; near; normandy; nous; number; old; original; ornaments; pages; paper; paris; paris ii; pas; place; portion; pour; present; principal; public; que; qui; revolution; right; road; rouen; route; royal; rue; scene; second; seine; set; sir; son; sort; spot; state; stone; streets; stuttgart; sun; tapestry; thing; time; tour; tout; tower; town; vellum; vienna; view; vire; visit; vol; volume; vous; walls; way; white; william; wood; work; year cache: 16224.txt plain text: 16224.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 17107 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two date: None words: 109564 flesch: 74 summary: The colophon, just given, is on the reverse of _z_ i. Of this romance I freely avow my total ignorance. He is among the most obliging and communicative of literary Parisians; and does not suffer his good nature to be soured, or his activity to abate, from the influence of _national_ prejudice. keywords: 4to; 8vo; account; appearance; art; attention; author; bibliographical; binding; black; book; catalogue; cathedral; century; character; church; collection; columns; condition; copies; copy; country; crapelet; cut; date; day; de la; denon; des; description; edition; effect; eighths; end; english; eye; feet; figure; fine; folio; following; france; french; friend; general; gold; good; gothic; ground; half; hand; having; head; height; house; illuminations; inches; interior; kind; leaf; leaves; left; length; les; letter; librarian; library; life; lines; lord; louis; madame; man; manner; measures; morocco; notice; number; order; original; page; paper; paris; perfect; picture; piece; place; portrait; preceding; present; principal; public; que; red; reverse; right; roman; room; royal; rue; sale; second; size; sound; state; strasbourg; style; taste; text; thing; time; type; vellum; view; volume; way; white; wood; work; years cache: 17107.txt plain text: 17107.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 17624 author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall title: A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three date: None words: 122234 flesch: 71 summary: _teime fleis_. [8] This was the _second_ copy, with the same original piece, which I had seen abroad; that in the Library of the Arsenal at Paris being the first. keywords: account; appearance; art; attention; bavaria; bible; bibliographical; binding; black; book; building; carriage; cathedral; century; character; church; city; collection; copies; copy; country; course; cropt; cut; date; day; description; door; early; edition; effect; emperor; end; english; eye; feet; figures; fine; folio; following; form; french; friend; german; gold; good; gothic; greek; half; hand; head; height; horses; house; imperial; inn; interior; kind; language; latin; leaves; left; letter; librarian; library; life; manner; miles; monastery; morning; morocco; mss; munich; notice; number; nuremberg; order; original; page; paris; perfect; pictures; place; portrait; present; prince; principal; professor; public; quarto; question; red; right; road; room; royal; second; size; sort; sound; state; subject; text; thing; time; town; vellum; vienna; view; visit; volume; way; white; wood; work; year cache: 17624.txt plain text: 17624.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 19415 author: Clark, John Willis title: Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods The Rede Lecture Delivered June 13, 1894 date: None words: 9739 flesch: 70 summary: Others are recorded at Hippo, at Cirta, at Constantinople, and at Rome, where both S. Peter's and the Lateran had their special collections of books. I now pass to the treatment of books in the libraries of the monastic orders. keywords: bookcases; books; cambridge; century; church; cloister; desk; house; libraries; library; monastic; reading; room; study cache: 19415.txt plain text: 19415.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 21630 author: Merryweather, F. Somner (Frederick Somner) title: Bibliomania in the Middle Ages date: None words: 87348 flesch: 67 summary: But what is more to our purpose, his biographer tells us that he was remarkably skilful in writing and illuminating, and transcribed many books, adorning them with beautiful paintings, whilst in this little cell.[96] Peter of Blois records, in his life of Wilfrid, that this man of God gave the monastery a copy of the gospels, a library, and many books of the Old and New Testament, with certain tablets made with marvellous ingenuity, and ornamented with gold and precious stones.[255] keywords: abbey; abbot; ages; albans; archbishop; art; authors; bede; benedict; bible; bibliomaniac; bishop; books; bury; canterbury; care; catalogue; century; chapter; choice; christian; church; collection; copies; copy; dark; days; durham; england; english; fine; fol; god; gold; good; gospels; great; hand; heart; history; holy; honor; i. p.; iii; john; king; knowledge; latin; learning; letters; libraries; library; librorum; life; list; literature; lord; love; man; manuscripts; men; middle; mind; monasteries; monastery; monastic; monkish; monks; mss; names; nature; new; number; order; original; oxford; page; parchment; paris; pen; period; peter; piety; place; prior; reader; reading; richard; rome; sacred; saxon; scribes; scriptures; student; study; subject; things; thomas; thought; time; tom; transcribed; treasures; use; volumes; william; works; writings; year cache: 21630.txt plain text: 21630.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 26378 author: Clark, John Willis title: The Care of Books date: None words: 117029 flesch: 76 summary: , 49-60 Versailles: libraries of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, 287 Verses: by Martial, to be placed under his own portrait, 35; by Isidore of Seville, for the presses in his library, 45 Vespasian: his library in Rome _in templo Paris_, 15; statement of Aulus Gellius respecting, 19; his record-office, now church of SS. In order to carry out these provisions the executors bought an ancient building called the _College_, which is known to have been completed before 1426 by Thomas Lord de la Warre, as a college in connexion with the adjoining collegiate church, now the Cathedral[468]. keywords: 8vo; abbey; account; ancient; armarium; arrangement; banco; bar; benedictine; bibliotheca; bibliothèque; bishop; bodleian library; bookcases; books; broad; building; cambridge; canterbury; care; catalogue; cathedral; central; century; chaining; chains; chapter; chapter library; christ; church; cloister; collection; college; college library; common; cornice; date; day; described; description; desk; door; durham; east; elevation; end; ends; example; face; feet; fellows; fifteenth; fig; fittings; floor; following; france; friend; furniture; general; good; great; greek; greek library; ground; half; hall; hand; height; history; house; ibid; iii; illustration; instance; iron; john; king; latin library; lectern; left; les; librarian; libraries; library; library statute; libri; like; long; manuscripts; master; middle; monastic; mss; museum; near; new; non; north; note; number; order; original; oxford; paris; passage; photograph; picture; piece; place; plan; position; present; press; presses; public; qui; reader; reading; record; right; rolls; roman; rome; room; school; seat; second; series; set; shelf; shelves; shews; sixtus; size; south; south library; space; statutes; study; subject; supra; system; table; time; trinity; university library; upper; use; vatican library; view; volumes; wall; way; west; west library; windows; wood; word; work; wren; writer; writing; year cache: 26378.txt plain text: 26378.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 27954 author: New York Public Library title: Handbook of The New York Public Library date: None words: 9894 flesch: 68 summary: The foundation of this collection was formed by the books on American history owned by James Lenox, the founder of the Lenox Library, one of the components of the present New York Public Library. (Each of the other two Boroughs of Greater New York, Brooklyn and Queens, has its own Public Library.) keywords: books; branch; building; circulation; corridor; free; illustration; libraries; library; new; new york; public library; reading room; room; street; york; york public cache: 27954.txt plain text: 27954.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 30419 author: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) title: How to Form a Library, 2nd ed date: None words: 43366 flesch: 71 summary: It contains classified lists of library books, but these are not now of much value, except for the notes which accompany the titles, and make this work eminently readable. When we come to consider libraries of printed books in place of manuscripts, we naturally find a greater variety of subjects collected by the famous men who have formed collections. keywords: 4to; 8vo; account; authors; bibliographies; bibliography; bibliotheca; books; british; catalogue; chapter; charles; children; club; collection; complete; des; dictionary; edition; england; english; following; form; general; good; henry; historical; history; index; james; john; language; late; librarian; libraries; library; life; list; literature; london; man; men; new; notes; number; oxford; paris; place; present; printing; public; publication; reading; reference; rev; royal; second; series; sir; society; special; subject; thomas; time; united; use; value; vols; volumes; william; works; years cache: 30419.txt plain text: 30419.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 39087 author: Panizzi, Anthony, Sir title: On the Supply of Printed Books from the Library to the Reading Room of the British Museum date: None words: 8853 flesch: 67 summary: With respect to the _fifth_ book, I am of opinion that the _title only_ ought to be--as it would have been in the time of your predecessors--sufficient. The facts are as follows:-- On the 18th of May, Sir N. H. Nicolas asked for five works at once. keywords: book; letter; nicolas; sir; | | cache: 39087.txt plain text: 39087.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 41837 author: Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson) title: The Secret Mark An Adventure Story for Girls date: None words: 39982 flesch: 92 summary: Oh, I know--Frank Morrow! Who's Frank Morrow? He's the best authority on old books there is in the United States to-day. He had passed his sixty-fifth birthday and for thirty-five years he had been a dealer in old books, yet he was neither stooped nor near-sighted. keywords: book; child; city; cottage; day; door; face; fire; florence; frank; gargoyle; hand; left; library; look; lucile; man; moment; morrow; mystery; night; old; place; room; street; thought; time; way; woman cache: 41837.txt plain text: 41837.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 46933 author: Pearson, Edmund Lester title: The Librarian at Play date: None words: 38560 flesch: 85 summary: on the fly-leaves of library books. Should this stock fail her she could send the stenographer, Miss Parkinson, on a hurry call to the reading-room, where Miss Bixby, the head reference librarian, would be able to draw on a larger collection of books to find the necessary information. keywords: bird; books; boy; boys; card; children; copy; course; day; desk; fernald; gauge; gooch; good; grant; great; guide; half; hand; head; interest; jane; librarian; library; little; look; man; men; miss; mrs; place; public; reading; red; right; room; small; telephone; thing; thought; time; tom; way; woman; work; years; yer cache: 46933.txt plain text: 46933.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 5198 author: Crabbe, George title: The Library date: None words: 5637 flesch: 65 summary: In dens and burning plains, her savage race With those tame tribes who on their lord attend, And find in man a master and a friend; Man crowns the scene, a world of wonders new, A moral world, that well demands our view. Nor say, the Muse's song, the Poet's pen, Merit the scorn they meet from little men. keywords: care; foes; heart; life; light; man; mind; page; power; reason; soul; world cache: 5198.txt plain text: 5198.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 52627 author: Legler, Henry Eduard title: Library Ideals date: None words: 23905 flesch: 59 summary: Each pupil of a term course studies one or two prescribed texts, reads and reports in detail a minimum of eight or nine hundred pages in a choice shelf collection of library books, takes and submits notes, writes brief themes and prepares for weekly quizzes wherein the members of his class section helpfully interchange ideas and information. He was quite right, for the said masters were by no means quick to educate themselves, and the number of public libraries which they consented to establish for three years after 1867 was about ten. keywords: books; business; children; cities; city; country; day; education; good; libraries; library; library work; life; literature; man; men; modern; need; new; people; population; public; public library; reading; school; service; state; time; united; use; work; world; years cache: 52627.txt plain text: 52627.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 7096 author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir title: The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith date: None words: 15062 flesch: 81 summary: Thereupon Gilgamish tied heavy stones [to his feet], and let himself down into the sea through an opening in the floor of the boat. [5] George Smith's Discovery of the Epic of Gilgamish and the Story of the Deluge. keywords: ashur; bani; deluge; enkidu; erech; gilgamish; gods; king; legend; library; napishtim; nebo; nineveh; pal; place; tablets; thou; thy; uta cache: 7096.txt plain text: 7096.txt