Word: alcotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...italics. Typical moral: "People are all different and must be treated differently." The worst that can be said about the book is that it draws heavily on the life of Benjamin Franklin. But its merit is that the anecdotes pertain to some 300 other people from Louisa M. Alcott to Adolph Zukor...
...Norris writes like an incurable romantic for almost the same reason Louisa May Alcott did. Miss Alcott had brothers and sisters to support. Mrs. Norris feels she must support the hearts of the thousands of people who began to write her letters when she began writing books. She cannot fail her public. A devout Roman Catholic, her conscience is with her as constantly as her portable typewriter, which it is not unusual to see in action on station platforms or in railroad cars when her copy is nearly due. Mornings at home, her telephones (and her husband's) are disconnected...