25. Who wrote: 66 Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." From what poem is it taken? Find two quotations about books, give author and title of the work from which they are taken. Give the author and correct form of the following: "Hit the nail on the head"; "Safe bind safe find." 26. In what county is Dedham, Mass., situated, on what railroad; has the American Express Company an office there; what is the population? 27. Find an outline of the history of printing. How many monasteries and religious houses were suppressed in England during the years 1525-40? 28. Find a full account of "counter-point." Who composed the opera, Fidelio, and when was it first produced? Find an account of the sonata as a musical form. 29. What does the phrase "deacon off" mean, and what is its origin? Who used the pseudonym Mr. Sparrowgrass? Explain: Tom Tiddler's Ground; G. O. M. 30. Find a history of the protective tariff in the United States. What is the single tax, and what are some of the objections to it? Find an account of the English poor-laws; the Elmira Reformatory; juvenile courts in the United States; a definition of profit-sharing. 31. Find a full account of the siege of Lucknow; of the Spanish-American War. What can you find about the great wall of China? 32. To whom was given the name "Old Man of the Mountain"? Explain the following allusions: Corporal Violet; Sage of Concord; Shakuntala; Prince Prettyman. 66 33. What treaty of importance was signed during the Rump Parliament "? 34. Who wrote the poem beginning: "The sun has kissed the violet sea"? Give its title and the collection where it can be found. 35. Who is Ernest Rhys? Kropotkin? 36. Where can you find the text of the Articles of Confederation; Calhoun's speech on the Right of Secession; a history of the Monroe Doctrine? 37. Find an explanation of the following: To pour oil on the troubled waters; the horns of a dilemma. Chapter VI PUBLIC DOCUMENTS Documents do not differ from other reference books in their use and the reason for devoting a separate chapter to them is, that the method of selecting and obtaining them presents a somewhat different problem from that of selecting and buying other books. A public document is one that is printed by the authority of any branch of a city, state or national government. Many such publications are of great value to school libraries and many more are of small value; for this reason great care should be exercised in selection. Most documents can be obtained free for a school library. Municipal Documents. The public library of a city should obtain all of the reports its city publishes; the high-school library will find publications of certain branches of the municipal government very useful. Reports and bulletins of the Board of Education, Board of Health, Public Library, Department of Charities and 'Correction, Parks and Playgrounds, Public Service and Finance, should supplement the textbook on Civics. These departments of the city government will send their reports to the school library if requested to do so. In small towns where no regular reports are published, but only statements in the local papers, the librarian should preserve the clippings and file them. All of this material is necessary for reference and debate work and to be made useful must be classified and catalogued. State Documents.- Publications of certain branches of the State government should also be secured for the school library. Local conditions will determine what the librarian can obtain, but in most States a request sent to the head of the department will bring the desired documents. Publications of the following departments should be received regularly and kept on file: Department of Agriculture; Department of Education; Geological Survey; Library Commission; State Library and State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. The legislative manual or "red book" is very useful and should be in the library. Federal Documents.- The United States government. publishes a vast amount of valuable material, much of which is far too technical for the school library. For that reason, no school library should make the mistake of accepting the offer of being made a depository for United States documents. Many libraries boast of being a depository for government documents, when they have not even the room to shelve the volumes and never dream that their part of the bargain is to make all those volumes available for use. Properly to care for all government publications would be too great an expense for most school libraries; besides, the expense would be unwarranted by the use made of many of the volumes. Selection. It is impossible to suggest a list of documents suitable to all school libraries. A recommended list is given in this chapter, but the following additional helps should be consulted in making a selection: American Library Association Catalog. 1904. American Library Association Catalog Supplement. 1904-II. Wyer, J. I., Jr. U. S. Government Documents in Small Chic. 1910. (A. L. A. Libraries. A. L. A. Chic. 1910. Handbook No. 7.) and the lists of the following government departments at Washington: Bureau of Education — Lists of publications. Bureau of Education - Teaching material in government Department of Agriculture - Lists of publications for Department of Agriculture - Office of Experiment Sta- Forest Service Material for use in schools. In the Bureau of Education bulletin "Teaching ma- When a selection of documents has been made, the SUGGESTED LIST OF U. S. DOCUMENTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL General Reference Material.— 317.3 U. S. Census bureau. Abstract of the 13th |