ademy of Science. (_The Monist_,
October, 1912, p. 580-5)

THE ADVERTISEMENT OF IDEAS
(_Minnesota Library Notes and News_, December, 1912, p. 190-7)

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND THE SOCIAL CENTER MOVEMENT
Read before the National Education Association. (_N.E.A.
Proceedings_, 1912, p. 240-5)

THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF VIOLENCE
(_St. Louis Mirror_, July 18, 1913)

THE ART OF RE-READING

HISTORY AND HEREDITY
Read before the New England Society of St. Louis. (_New England
Society of St. Louis_. _Proceedings_, 29th year, p. 13-20)

WHAT THE FLAG STANDS FOR
A Flag Day address in St. Peter's church, St. Louis. (_St. Louis
Republic_, June 15, 1914)

THE PEOPLE'S SHARE IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Read before the Chicago Women's Club, January 6, 1915. (_Library
Journal_, April, 1915, p. 227-32)

SOME TENDENCIES OF AMERICAN THOUGHT
Read before the New York Library Association at Squirrel Inn, Haines
Falls, September 28, 1915. (_Library Journal_, November, 1915, p.
771-7)

DRUGS AND THE MAN
A Commencement address to the graduating class of the School of
Pharmacy, St. Louis, May 19, 1915. (_Journal of the American
Pharmaceutical Association_, August, 1915, p. 915-22)

HOW THE COMMUNITY EDUCATES ITSELF
Read before the American Library Association, Asbury Park, N.J.,
June 27, 1916. (_Library Journal_, August, 1916, p. 541-7)

CLUBWOMEN'S READING
(_The Bookman_, January-March, 1915, p. 515-21, 642-7, 64-70)

BOOKS FOR TIRED EYES
(_Yale Review_, January, 1917, p. 358-68)

THE MAGIC CASEMENT
Read before the Town and Gown Club, St. Louis.

A WORD TO BELIEVERS
Address at the closing section of the Church School of Religious
Instruction.

INDEX

A LIBRARIAN'S OPEN SHELF

ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

DO READERS READ?

Those who are interested in the proper use of our libraries are asking
continually, "What do readers read?" and the tables of class-percentages
in the annual reports of those institutions show that librarians are at
least making an attempt to satisfy these queries. But a question that is
still more fundamental and quite as vital is: Do readers read at all? This
is not a paradox, but a common-sense question, as the following suggestive
little incident will show. The librarian-in-charge of a crowded branch
circulating-library in New York City had occasion to talk, not long ago,
to one of her "star" borrowers, a youth who had taken