Most people read the newspapers enough, library or no library.

Many, save for the library, would not read the standard American and English periodicals.
[Illustration: Magazine binder.

(Reduced; various sizes.)] The young people are the library's most hopeful material.

To them the librarian hopes to give, through books and journals, an added pleasure; and in them he hopes to awaken a taste for reading something--in time something good.

To attract the children it will be wise to have on file a few juvenile journals and picture papers and illustrated magazines.