CONTENTS


DO READERS READ?
(_The Critic_, July, 1901, p. 67-70)

WHAT MAKES PEOPLE READ?
(_The Book Lover_, January, 1904, p. 12-16)

THE PASSING OF THE POSSESSIVE; A STUDY OF BOOK TITLES
(_The Book Buyer_, June, 1897, p. 500-1)

SELECTIVE EDUCATION
(_Educational Review_, November, 1907, p. 365-73)

THE USES OF FICTION
Read before the American Library Association, Asheville Conference,
May 28, 1907. (_A.L.A. Bulletin_, July, 1907, p. 183-7)

THE VALUE OF ASSOCIATION
Delivered before the Library Associations of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, October 9-18, 1907. (_Library Journal_,
January, 1908, p. 3-9)

MODERN EDUCATIONAL METHODS
(_Notes and News_, Montclair, N.J., July, 1908)

SOME ECONOMIC FEATURES OF LIBRARIES
Read at the opening of the Chestnut Hill Branch, Philadelphia Free
Library, January 22, 1909. (_Library Journal_, February, 1909, p.