Library Science Books
How to plan a library building for library work
Charles C. SouleOn being asked to write on “Library Architecture” for this series I hesitated, knowing little about the subject except as applied to the insides of libraries. But on this limited branch I have had som..
A List of English & American Sequel Stories
Thomas AldredSeveral librarians who found the old list useful have asked me at various times to bring it up-to-date, and I have at last found leisure to accede to the request and to add a large number of stories n..
Blackie's Books for Young People, Catalogue - 1899
Blackie & SonThe Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal. By G. A. Henty. With 12 page Illustrations by C. J. Staniland, r.i. 6s.“From first to last nothing stays the interest of the narrative. It bea..
The Book Collector
Charles NodierBook collectors, M. Nodier to the contrary notwithstanding, are still very much alive, and can again be found even in the harried ranks of capitalists. But the learned French librarian was nearer righ..
The Palmer Method of Business Writing
A. N. PalmerThe Palmer Method of Business Writing: A Series of Self-teaching in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in All Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible H..
The Bibliomaniac
Charles NodierIt is certain that the reader of to-day is somewhat at a loss in the company of a book of Nodier’s, and feels very much as when, in a military panorama, he sees the wheel of a real caisson, and often ..
Type and Presses in America
Frederick W. HamiltonThe great American printing houses of today are more and more the masters of their own craft, not the imitators of others. This condition is also true of the type founders and manufacturers of machine..
The Invention of Typography
Frederick W. HamiltonThe writer believes that the history of any particular event is a part of the general history of the time in which it occurred. He has, therefore, endeavored throughout the historical portion of this ..