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The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses

Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore), 1860-1942 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 148,118 words

Ticknor's zeal in promoting the Boston library and his interest in making it as popular as possible, in distinction to the idea of a library solely for scholars, upheld by John Jacob Astor, in his New York gift of three years previous, which Everett rather favored.

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2. ill. The movement toward freedom of administration was really concerned

with small matters, and left unaltered the central plan and purpose of the library. But with the assumption of direct educational work for children, for women, for men, the libr...

1. Chapter XV, Vol. II of the "Life," and get a further idea of

Ticknor's zeal in promoting the Boston library and his interest in making it as popular as possible, in distinction to the idea of a library solely for scholars, upheld by John...