Scouting, Volume 1, Number 14, November 1, 1913 Page: 6
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SCOUTING
EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY GIVES BOYS
GOOD BOOKS AT A POPULAR PRICE
Boy Scouts of America Leads In Movement to Bring Wholesome
Influence Into Lives of Boys.
Pitching in a Pinch
NEXT to his personal associates, the
books that a boy reads probably
exert a greater influence upon him
than any other one factor in his life.
Parents and educators are awakening to
this fact, but their problem is to choose
from the huge mass of boys' literature the
volumes which the boy will like best and
yet those which will
be best for the boy.
To meet this need,
more than a year ago
the National Organ-
ization of the Boy
Scouts of America
appointed as Con-
suiting Book Physi-
cian (now Chief
Scout Librarian)
Mr. Franklin K.
Mathiews, whose
studies of the char-
acter culture value Cover of the Every
of books boys like s Library Books.
best peculiarly fitted him to be such a coun-
selor.
through our own news bulletins and
the courtesy of The Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, The WOman's Home Companion and
The Delineator, announcement was made
that if parents would send to the National
Headquarters of the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica descriptions of their boys—age, inter-
ests, temperament, attainments, moral
qualifications, faults or delinquencies, giv-
ing some idea of how the boys are in-
clined to spend their leisure time and the
characteristics of the boys with whom they
best like to associate, after careful exami-
nation of this statement, a course of read-
ing would be prescribed, which it was be-
lieved would not only interest the boys but
also help the parents in securing such re-
sults as would count for character culture.
As a consequence of this publicity, hun-
dreds of replies from mothers, teachers and
librarians were received. These letters
came not only from every State in the
Union, but also practically from every
country in the world.
It was felt, however, even with this con-
tribution toward the solution of this great
problem, that something of a more general
character should be done. To this end, the
publishers of the worth-while boys' books
were approached with the suggestion that,
in the event of our movement organizing a
Commission to be composed of the most
reputable librarians of the country, would
they be willing for such a Commission to
choose from their juvenile publications as
many as twenty-five books to be issued in
uniform binding and designated as " Every
Boy's Library." It was further proposed
that, in return for the approval given these
books by this Commission, the publishers
would permit the sale of these books
(formerly sold at prices ranging from one
dollar to a dollar and a half) in popular
priced editions at fifty cents a volume.
These proposals were accepted by the
publishers, the Library Commission of the
Boy Scouts of America was organized, and
the Grosset and Dunlap publishing house
chosen as distributors of the books, and,
as a result of their labor, " Every Boy's
Library, Boy Scout Edition," has been
placed on sale in practically every town
and city throughout the whole United
States.
The Library Commission is composed of
the following members: George P. Bower-
man, Librarian, Public Library of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, VVashington, JJ. C.;
Harrison W. Craver, Librarian, Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Claude G.
Lelana, Superintendent, Bureau of Libra-
ries, Board of Education, JSlew York City;
Edward F. Stevens, Librarian, Pratt insti-
tute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.; to-
gether with the Editorial Board of the
iioy Scout Movement, William L). Murray,
George L). Pratt and Frank Presbrey, with
Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Li-
brarian, as Secretary. All the books
chosen have been approved by them.
in selecting the books, the Commission
has chosen only such as are of interest to
boys, the first twenty-five being either
works of fiction or stirring stones of ad-
venturous experiences. In later lists, books
of a more serious sort will be included. It
is hoped that as many as twenty-five may
be added to the Library each year.
A list of the books follows:
Baby Elton, Quarter-Back, Leslie W. Quirk.
The Blazed Trail, Stewart Edward White.
Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts, Frank R.
Stockton.
The Call of the Wild, Jack London.
Cab and Caboose, Rirk Munroe.
College Years, Ralph D. Paine.
Crooked Trails, Frederick Remington.
The Cruise of the Cachalot, F. T. Bullen.
From Cattle Ranch to College, Russell Double-
day.
Jeb iIu'tton, James B. Connolly.
The Horsemen of .the Plains, Joseph A. Alt-
sheler.
The Jester of St. Timothy's, Arthur Stanwood
Pier.
Jim Davis, John Masefield.
A Midshipman in the Pacific, Cyrus Townsend
Brady.
Pitching in a Pinch, Christy Mathewson.
The Ranche on the Oxhide, Henry Inman.
Redney McGaw, Arthur E. McFarlane.
Three Years Behind the Guns, L. G. T.
Tom Paulding, Brander Mathews.
Tommy Remington's Battle, Burton E. Steven-
son.
Tecumseh's Young Brave§, Everett T. Tomlin-
son.
Tom Strong, Washington's Scout, Alfred Bishop
Mason.
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings,
Andy Adams.
Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors, James
Barnes.
These books are large 12mo. in size, well
printed on good paper, and uniformly bound
in cloth, with the official seal of the Boy
iScouts of America stamped on the cover,
and an attractive wrapper in four colors
and gold.
The Commission invites suggestions as to
future books to be included in the Library.
Librarians, teachers, parents, scout masters
and all others interested in welfare work
for boys, can render a unique service by
forwarding to (National Headquarters lists
of such books as in their judgment would
be suitable for " Every Boy's Library."
BOYS' LIFE.
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From an Editorial
in the October
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Published by the University of Chicago Press
"The publication issued by the
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school with wholesome influ-
ences of the type cultivated by
this movement."
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