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Start of eBook	1
	1
THE ART OF RE-READING	1
INDEX	2
ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS	2
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE READ?	6
THE PASSING OF THE POSSESSIVE: A STUDY OF BOOK-TITLES	10
SELECTIVE EDUCATION[1]	12
THE USES OF FICTION[2]	19
THE VALUE OF ASSOCIATION[3]	24
MODERN EDUCATIONAL METHODS	34
SOME ECONOMIC FEATURES OF LIBRARIES[4]	36
SIMON NEWCOMB: AMERICA’S FOREMOST ASTRONOMER	42
THE COMPANIONSHIP OF BOOKS[5]	48
ATOMIC THEORIES OF ENERGY[6]	62
THE ADVERTISEMENT OF IDEAS	70
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND THE SOCIAL CENTER MOVEMENT[7]	80
THE SYSTEMATIZATION OF VIOLENCE	86
THE ART OF RE-READING	89
HISTORY AND HEREDITY[8]	98
WHAT THE FLAG STANDS FOR[9]	102
THE PEOPLE’S SHARE IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY[12]	107
SOME TENDENCIES OF AMERICAN THOUGHT[13]	116
DRUGS AND THE MAN[14]	125
HOW THE COMMUNITY EDUCATES ITSELF[15]	134
CLUBWOMEN’S READING	143
II—A Diagnosis	151
III—The Remedy	158
BOOKS FOR TIRED EYES	167
THE MAGIC CASEMENT[16]	174
A WORD TO BELIEVERS[17]	183
INDEX	190
Belief, What is?, 339	191
Cabiria; motion picture play, 319, 322	191
Dante, 46	191
Eaton, Walter Pritchard, quoted, 316	192
Fairy tales, 75	192
Gallicism in book-titles, 22	192
Hall, G. Stanley, quoted, 253	192
Identity, Meaning of, 114	192
Keith, Cleveland, 84	193
Lagrange, 114	193
Magazines, Support of, 68	193
N-ray, 333	193
Omar Khayyam, 108	194
Pacifism, 157	194
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St. Louis Academy of Science, paper before, 113	195
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Un-American, what is? 226	195
Value, Structure of, 119	195
Walton, Isaac, 165	195

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