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Abraham, Story of, 335
Action, test of belief, 332
Ade, George, 110, 170; fables in picture plays, 319
Adults and children, compared, 14
Advertisement of ideas, 127
Aldrich, T.B., 322
Alger, Horatio, 16, 174
America, Fluid customs in, 224
“America”, hymn, 191
American Academy of Sciences, 57
American ancestry, 179; architecture, 218; art, 217; music, 218; philosophy, 220; religion, 219; thought, tendencies of, 213
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 50
American Library Association, 51
American Library Institute, 52
American readers, 42
Americanization, 17, 73
Americanization of England, 225
Ancestry, American, 179
Anglo-Saxon ancestry, 181
Architecture, American, 218
Archives, family, 184
Army, international, 159
Art, American, 217; effect of, 163
Art, Early forms of, 37
Association, value of, 45
Atoms of energy and action, 122
Attractiveness a selective feature, 26
Austen, Jane, 176
Author, Function of, 67
Authors Club, N.Y., 51
Auto-suggestion in drugs, 233
Aviation, Newcomb’s opinion of, 86
Belief, What is?, 339
Bennett, Arnold, 175
Bible, King James Version, 337
Birth of a nation; picture play, 322
Book-stores, disappearance of, 238
Books in selective education, 27
“Book-Taught Bilkins”, 89, 98
Book-titles, Possessive case in, 19
Boston tea-party, 183
Branch libraries, Reasons given for using, 11
British Association, 307
Brooklyn Public Library, 4
Brown, Susannah H., who was she? 281
Browsing, 27; uses of, 104
Bryce, James, quoted, 216
Buildings, Monumental, 141
Bulwer-Lytton, E.G.E.L., 86
Burbank, Luther, 24
Cabiria; motion picture play, 319, 322
Captions in motion pictures, 318
Carnegie, Andrew, 77
Carnegie Institution, 85, 306
Cartoonist, Anecdote of, 294
Centre, What is a?, 145
Centralized associations, 58
Certainty and belief, 330
Chaucer, 293
Chautauqua, 265
Chemistry, New drugs from, 232
Chicago Evening Post, quoted, 109
Chicago, Field houses in, 148
Chicago Women’s Club, Paper before, 197
Children’s editions, 6; rooms, 31
Christian Science and drugs, 233
Christianity, 331
Christmas book shows, 170
Church School of religious instruction, 329
Church, Use of symbols by, 188
Churches of Christ in America, Federation of, 220
Circulation by volumes, 6; publicity value of, 142; tables, 7, 8
Circulation, Publicity, 142
Civil Engineers, Society of, 52
Civil War, Notions of, 180
Classroom libraries, 29
Clergy, Slight influence of, 13
“Close-ups” in motion pictures, 317
Clubs that meet in libraries, 148
Clubwomen’s reading, 259
Colloquial speech, 92
Color-photography in motion pictures, 327
Combat, Settlement by, 158
Commercial travellers, 198
Commission government, 216
Constitution, United States, 50, 214; amendment of, 226
Continuum, 116
Cook, Dr. Frederick, 95
Copyright conference, 53
Courses of reading, 268
Court, International, 159
Creeds, Uses of, 333
Crowd-psychology on a ferry, 247
Dante, 46
D’Annunzio, G., 322
Delivery stations in drug stores, 241
Democracy a result, 72; and ancestry, 186; and despotism, 213; conditions of, 209
Department stores, 238
Despotism and democracy, 213
Dickens, pathos of, 175
Disarmament, 161
Discontinuity of the universe, 124
Distribution of books, 67, 129
Distributor, Library as a, 198
Divorce, Freedom of, 217
Don Quixote, Heine on, 173
Drug-addiction, 234
Drugs and the man, 229
Eaton, Walter Pritchard, quoted, 316
Eclecticism in America, 213
Economic advertising, 130
Economic writings of Newcomb, 86
Education, American, 218; in recreation, 100; modern methods of, 63; of the community, 243; of the sexes, 273; post-scholastic, 30; selective, 23, 65; through books, 90
Efficiency in association, 48; What is? 257
Elizabethan drama, 323
Energetics, Theory of, 114
Energy, Atomic theories of, 113
England an elective monarchy, 214; rigid customs in, 224; source consciousness in, 182
Ephemeral, Meaning of, 36
Episcopalians, 220
Eyes, injured by small type, 302
Fairy tales, 75
Falsity in books, 39
Feminist movement, 267
Flag, what it stands for, 187
Fiction, 39; interest in, 137; intoxication by, 40, 100; uses of, 35
Fluids, Mixture of, 118
Force symbolized by flag, 194
Ford, Henry, 237
Freedom, What is? 192
Gallicism in book-titles, 22
Gary system, 246
Genealogy, American, 179
Gibbs, J. Willard, quoted, 118
Good-will, Influence of, 17
Government, Federal, 213
Gravitation, Law of, 83
Gray’s Elegy, 111
Greek tragedy, 324
Group-action, 45; on a ferry, 247
Hall, G. Stanley, quoted, 253
Harvard Classics, 109
Heine, Heinrich, quoted, 173
Henry, Joseph, 80
Heredity, and memory, 73; History and, 179
Hertzian waves, 121
Hilgard, Julius, 80
Hill, G.W., 84
Holmes, Mary J., 104
Homer, Methods of, 198
Honesty, Lack of, 32
Huey, Book by, 305
Hunt, Leigh, 109
Huret, Jules, 41
Identity, Meaning of, 114
Impeachment, 214
Indicator, in English libraries, 225
Indifference to books, 133
Information in books, 94
Inspiration from books, 101
Intemperance in reading, 40, 100
Interest, Importance of, 287, 289; Necessity of, 5, 137
International agreements in science, 85
Internationalism, 159
Intoxication by fiction, 40, 100
Ivanhoe, 175
James, William, 138; founder of pragmatism, 221; quoted, 287
Keith, Cleveland, 84
Kent, William, quoted, 229
Kepler, quoted, 177
Kinemacolor process, 327
Kinetic theory, 120
Koopman, H.L., 308
Lagrange, 114
Languages, written and spoken, 90
Large type, Books in, 301
Law, Enforcement of, 158
Le Bon, Gustave, 45
Lee, Gerald Stanley, 77
Legibility of type, 306
Libbey, Laura Jean, 41, 104
Libraries, Economic features of, 67
Library associations. 49; Non-partisanship of, 70, 96, 152; Private basis of, 169
Lindsay, Vachell, 321
Lines, Length of on printed page, 309
Liouville’s theorem, 123
Lippmann, Walter, quoted, 216, 228
Literature an art, 165; evaluation of, 95; static and dynamic, 35
Los Angeles Public Library, 96
Lower-case letters. 307
Loyalists, United Empire, 180
Lummis, Chas. F., 96
Lunar theory, 84
Magazines, Support of, 68
Magical remedies, 233
Magnet, Definition of, 87
Make-up in motion pictures, 317
Malemployment, 229
Maxwell Jas. Clerk, 115
Mayflower, The, 183
Medical Record, Strasburg, 305
Meetings in libraries, 147
Memory, Latent, 74
Meredith, Geo., 110
Mexican commission, 194
Military associations, 48
Mill, John Stuart, 243, 244
Mind, Male and female types, 272
Moderation, Lack of in America, 235
Mohammedanism, 219
Molecular theory, 115
Moon’s motion, 84
Morals, Eclecticism in, 216
Morgan, J.P., 169
Motives of library users, 11
Moving pictures, 313
Municipal ownership and operation, 154
Music, American, 218
N-ray, 333
Narrative, earliest literary form, 37
National Academy of Fine Arts, 57
National Academy of Science, 52
National Education Association, 50; Address before, 145
Nautical Almanac, 80
New country, What is? 182
New England Society, 179
New York, Free Circulating Library, 19
New York, Library support in, 200; West side readers, 42
New York Public Library, 11, 30, 220
Newcomb, Simon, Sketch of, 79
Newspapers, 36
Newton, Isaac, 83
Non-partisanship of library, 250
Norris, Frank, 322
Omar Khayyam, 108
Open shelves, 104; Origin of, 225
Optic, Oliver, 174
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 114
Pacifism, 157
Pageant of St. Louis, 188
Pantomime in the motion picture, 320
Papers, Ready-made, for clubs, 270; scientific, 275
Pater, Walter, 168
Paulist fathers, 220
Pauperization, intellectual, 68
Pendleton, A.M., quoted, 140
Perry, Bliss, quoted, 211
Pharmacy, School of, address to, 229
Philadelphia Free Library, Address at, 67
Philosophy, an interesting subject, 133, 138; in America, 220
Phonograph, Uses of, 94
Physics made interesting, 138
Pickford, Mary, 247, 317
Planck, Max, 113, 120
Planets, Orbits of, 83
Players’ Club, N.Y., 51
Pocahontas, 183
Poincaré, Henri, 113, 120
“Poison labels” for books, 96
Porter, Noah, 334
Posse, International, 159
Possessive case, Use of, 19
Pragmatism in America, 221
Prayer Book as literature, 337
Prescott, William H., 95
Press, Slight influence of, 13
Pride, Personal and group, 185
Princeton University, 219
Printing Art, magazine, 308
Programitis, club disease, 286
Programmes, Club, 268, 280, 295
Public as library owners, 205
Public Library, 169; eclecticism of, 221; people’s share in, 197
Publicity, Library, 140
Publisher, Function of, 67
Puritanism, 219
Quanta, 121; hypothesis of, 113
Race-record, Library as a, 74
Radio-activity, 231
Rayleigh’s Law, 120
Readers, Do they read? 3
Reading, mechanism of, 91; skill in, 135
Realism in education, 246; in motion pictures, 314
Recall, earliest form of, 213
Records, varieties of, 94
Recreation through books, 99
Religion in America, 219
Renewal, Preservation by, 97
Repetition a test of art, 166
Reprinting, Use of, 98
Re-reading, Art of, 163
Residual personality, 290
Resonators, 121
Revolution, American, notions of, 180; versus evolution, 279
Revue Scientifique, 113
Roethlin, Barbara E., 306
Roman Catholic Church, 220
Roman viewpoint in history, 181
Rome, decadence of, 227
Rousiers, Paul de., quoted, 55, 56, 57
St. Louis Academy of Science, paper before, 113
St. Louis, library tax in, 200
St. Louis Public Library, 140, 254, 302; meetings in, 150
Sampling books, 110
Scenery in motion pictures, 317; in Elizabethan drama, 323; made of motion pictures, 327
School libraries, 29
School, Non-partisanship of, 70; Community use of, 155
Schoolmen of N.Y., Paper before, 23
Scientific societies, 52
“See America First” movement, 191
Selection In nature, 23; mechanical, 47
Selective education, 65
Sex in library use, 15
Sexes, differences of, 272
Shakespeare, 178; changes in, 293; rank of, 168; unavailable for stage, 323
Shaw, Edw. R., 304
Social Centre movement, 145
Society for Psychical Research, 82
Society of Illuminating Engineers, 57
Socrates, quoted, 338
Sorolla, 164
Southern views of Civil War, 180
Spelling reform, 93
Staginess of the theatre, 315
Standard Dictionary, 87
Standards in literature, 36
Statistics of reading, actual, 4
Story-telling, 37; extraordinary, 282
Structure of energy, 118
Superficiality, meaning of, 105; 269
Swift, Dean, 208
Symbols, Use of, 188
Taste, literary, 171; origin of, 4
Tax, library, 200
Teacher, influence of, 13, 243
Text-books, Defects of, 270
Therapeutics, Changes in, 230
Tocqueville, de., quoted, 56
Toronto, University of, 220
Trade-literature, 98
Tradition, Uses of, 93
Travel, Foreign, in United States, 41
Trollope, Anthony, 176
Tutorial system, 219
Tyndall, John, 138
Type sizes, Standardization of, 304
Un-American, what is? 226
Unfitness, Elimination of, 24
Union, symbolized by flag, 189
Unity of place on the stage, 324
Universal City, 317
Value, Structure of, 119
Van Dyke, Henry, quoted, 193
Verne, Jules, 86
Violence, systematization of, 157
Vision, Conservation of, 305
Volumes, Statistics by, 4
Walton, Isaac, 165
War, European, 209, 249; status of, 158
Wesley, John, 46
West, source-consciousness of, 182
White, Gilbert, 165
Wien, Wilhelm, 122
Women’s Clubs, 210; reading of, 259
Woodbury, George E., quoted, 219
Yale Alumni Weekly, quoted, 292