| PREFACE | 5 |
| THE LIBRARY AND SOCIETY | 13 |
| GENERAL COMMUNITY RELATIONS | 15 |
| The Historical Evolution of the Free Public Library in America and Its True Function in the Community; Dedication Address at Sage Library. (Library Journal, 1884, p. 40) | 17 |
| Moses Coit Tyler. |
| The Library as a Field for Philanthropy. (Extract from “The Best Fields for Philanthropy,” North American Review, December, 1889.) | 33 |
| Andrew Carnegie. |
| The Idea of a Popular Library. (“Life, Letters, and Journals,” Vol. 2, 1851.) | 49 |
| George Ticknor. |
| The Function of a Town Library. (“Protection of Majorities,”) 1875 | 55 |
| Josiah P. Quincy. |
| The Free Public Library. (Extract from “Men and Women,” 1888.) | 63 |
| Thomas W. Higginson. |
| Two Fundamentals. (Library Journal, 1896, p. 446.) | 67 |
| Mary Salome Cutler. |
| What a Library Should Be, and What It Can Do. (Public Libraries, 1899, p. 269.) | 75 |
| Melvil Dewey |
| The Public Library in American Life. (Library Journal, 1905, p. 925.) | 79 |
| Hugo Munsterberg. |
|
| Books and the Public Library; Dedication Address of Chelsea Library. (Library Journal, 1886, p. 10.) | 87 |
| James Russell Lowell. |
| The Influence of Good Books; Dedication Address, Spencer Library, Mass. (Library Journal, 1889, p. 380.) | 101 |
| Robert Collyer. |
| Books and Life. (Library Journal, 1906, p. 203.) | 109 |
| Edward Asahel Birge. |
| Address at the Dedication of the Boston Public Library. (“Orations and Speeches”, Boston, 1859; Vol. III.) | 127 |
| Edward Everett. |
| Address at a Meeting in Favor of the New York Free Circulating Library. (Library Journal, 1890, p. 107.) | 139 |
| Grover Cleveland. |
| Addresses at the Opening of the Wadsworth AthenÆum Library, Hartford, Conn. (Library Journal, 1893, p. 18.) | 145 |
| Charles Dudley Warner. |
| Charles Hopkins Clark. |
| Libraries as Leaven; Dedication address, Madison Public Library. (American Bibliopolist, 1875, p. 189.) | 149 |
| James Davie Butler. |
| The Free Public Library. (American Magazine of Civics, 1895, p. 469.) | 169 |
| Henry Hervey Barber. |
| THE COMMUNITY'S SERVICE TO THE LIBRARY | 183 |
| The Relation of the State to the Public Library. (Transactions of the Second International Library Conference, London, 1898, p. 19.) | 185 |
| Melvil Dewey. |
| Methods of Securing the Interest of a Community. (Library Journal, 1880, p. 245.) | 193 |
| William Eaton Foster. |
|
| FINANCIAL SUPPORT | 199 |
| Free Libraries: An Argument against Public Support. (“A Plea for Liberty,” ed. by Thos. Mackay, 3rd ed., London, 1894, p. 260.) | 201 |
| M.D. O'Brien. |
| Arguments for Public Support of Public Libraries: a Rejoinder to the Foregoing. (Library Journal, 1891, p. 39, Conference No.) | 215 |
| William Eaton Foster. |
| Public Libraries and the Public, with Special References to San Francisco. (Library Journal, 1885, p. 223.) | 231 |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins. |
| The Levy of Library Tribute; Presidential Address to the A.L.A. (Library Journal, 1895, Conference No., p. 1.) | [numbered blank page]
|
