 | 1903 - 522 páginas
...fashion. Let me say again that I am no enemy of fiction. A good story has created many an oasis in main- an otherwise arid life. Manysidedness of interest...the pages of a story book into a broader world than theirnature and theircircumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to stay the narrowing... | |
 | American Library Association - 1903 - 540 páginas
...for summing it up in this brief and barren fashion. Let me say again that I am no enemy of fiction. A good story has created many an oasis in many an...specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it is a return to romance, poetry, imagination, fancy,... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - 1903 - 260 páginas
...for summing it up in this brief and barren fashion. Let me say again that I am no enemy of fiction. A good story has created many an oasis in many an...specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it is a return to romance, poetry, imagination, fancy,... | |
 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - 1907 - 640 páginas
...cheerfulness." Our own good friend, Mr. John Cotton Dana, has admirably epitomized the underlying philosophy : "A good story has created many an oasis in many an...specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it is a return to romance, poetry, imagination, fancy,... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - 1907 - 340 páginas
...cheerfulness." Our own good friend, Mr John Cotton Dana, has admirably epitomized the underlying philosophy: "A good story has created many an oasis In many an...fellows step through the pages of a story book into broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to... | |
 | American Library Association - 1907 - 456 páginas
...cheerfulness." Our own good friend, Mr John Cotton Dana, has admirably epitomized the underlying philosophy: "A good story has created many an oasis in many an...fellows step through the pages of a story book into broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to... | |
 | American Library Association. Annual Conference - 1907 - 670 páginas
...cheerfulness." Our own good friend, Mr John Cotton Dana, has admirably epitomized the underlying philosophy: "A good story has created many an oasis in many an...fellows step through the pages of a story book Into broader world than their nature and their circumstances ever permit them to visit. If anything is to... | |
 | Michigan State Library - 1910 - 368 páginas
...sense of cheerfulness has 'great merit. (7) The public library encourages good morals in the community. "Many-sidedness of interest makes for good morals...and their circumstances ever permit them to visit." (8) The library is more democratic than any other institution in the city. It is the function of the... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - 1911 - 930 páginas
...upon his shelves. To quote a fellow librarian who expresses admirably the value of such literature, "A good story has created many an oasis In many an...specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among ue, It is a return to romance, poetry, imagination, fancy,... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - 1913 - 356 páginas
...librarian who expresses admirably the value of such literature, "A good story has created many an oasts in many an otherwise arid life. Many-sidedness of...specialization of inquiry and of industry and swift accumulation of wealth are setting up among us, it Is a return to romance, poetry, imagination, fancy,... | |
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A good story has created many an oasis in many an otherwise arid life. Many-sidedness of interest makes for good morals, and millions of our fellows step through the pages of a story book into a broader world than their nature and their circumstances... 
