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268 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
Vacation Books
Regular borrowers who wish to take books out of town for
the summer may obtain special privileges.
Not more than ten books may be issued on one card. Four
of these may be fiction.
Books will be stamped due October i, 1913, from which
date a fine of two cents a day will accrue on each.
They may be exchanged at any time. Transportation on
all books returned to the Library must be prepaid and those
sent out will be sent by express collect.
Borrowers will be asked to give their out of town addresses
and their cards will be held at the Library.
Books Which May Not be Borrowed in this 'Way
Baedeker's Handbooks.
Books added to the Library since June 1, 1912.
The Library reserves the right to refuse to lend by this
method any other books which it seems unwise to take out of
general circulation for so long a time.
Reviews of Recent Books
A Small Boy and Others
By Henry James
"This wonderful record of the author's own childhood is a masterpiece
of literary art, and if Mr. Henry James had no other claim to our
esteem than this one book we should still rank him high among those
writers from whom we have derived the purest delight, not only from the
nature of the work accomplished, but also for the consummate craftsmanship
that has gone to its accomplishment. Through the memory of his
mind as child and boy he has resuscitated for us a bygone world, the
simpler and perhaps kindlier world that we often speak of with vague
disparagement and ill-defined contempt as Early Victorian. The most
vital part of the world thus reconstructed for our benefit is American;
but it is an America far less alien to us than the America of to-day. Indeed,
as we read, we are at times deluded into the belief that we are
discovering some pleasant English family of the professional class, with