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...Stowe, Holmes, Alcott, and Aldrich", Professor Murdock, Sever...
...Stowe, Holmes, Alcott, and Aldrich", Professor Murdock, Sever...
Librarians observe and report readers' tastes. Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking. Some enter their 'teens hand in hand with Louisa May Alcott, leave them arm in arm with G. B. Shaw. A librarian may fix his attention on special cases: prisons, for example. Girls in correctional institutions do not read so much as boys. They are "ignorant and sophisticated, pathetically childish, wary, scornful and suspicious." They should be given stories written for adults of meagre intelligence, especially those of girls who rise above unfortunate surroundings...
...previous hymnals, published in 1897 and 1914. the committee has removed 177 hymns written by non-Jewish composers, and substituted some 200 authentic Judaic compositions. Still to be part of the service, but not employed by any other sect, Jewish or Christian, are hymns with verses by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women}, Poets William Cowper, Thomas Moore and John Addington Symonds, Thomas Tallis (1515-85, "the father of English cathedral music") and John Haynes Holmes, Manhattan preacher and civic reformer.† Once a Unitarian, Dr. Holmes became an independent in 1919. Friend of many a Jewish leader...
...EARLE R. ALCOTT...