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An hour or an hour and a half each week is de- voted to the study of drawing, and as the state super- visor says the principal aim of drawing is to give the children power to show on paper how a thing looks, we devote much of the time to representation.
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In the autumn the children bring in flowers and. leaves, studying their forms and colors and making decorative arrangements of them. When these are gone we make working drawings and we have con- structed some pretty things this fall. Boxes of all shapes have been made of paper with decorative designs painted on them. Then we have had wall pockets, post card cases, match holders, post card albums and brush broom holders made in school. In the last named object some skill in sewing was neces- sary and the boys as well as the girls were much in- terested. In all constructive work the class drew and designed the object before making it.
In January we come to perspective and draw all sorts of objects.
In the primary grades the children draw toys and we have had some very cute engines, carts and auto- mobiles besides animals of various kinds. In the grammar grades the classes draw objects, studying the perspective principles in connection with them. After some practice the children finish their drawings with water color or with tones of ink, black with grays. We have had some pretty groups with jars and vases, pitchers and cups. A group with a book and rosary was especially pretty. Some of the children have won prizes in Mr. Bailey's school contest and our mush- rooms, our grasses and one of our pitchers have been reproduced in the School Arts Book.
In the spring we draw the budding twigs and flowers as they come and make designs from them.
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The High school classes have made some studies of landscapes and make groups in charcoal, as jars with radishes, baskets with fruit and many other things, besides a few studies from the cast. One class is taking up pencil shading. The mechanical class is doing very good work and study geometry pro- jection and some details of machine drawing.
The good work done is due largely to the co-ope- ration of the superintendent and teachers and I wish to thank them for their helpfulness.
Respectfully,
ANNA F. EAGER.
APPENDIX.
SCHOOL LAWS IN BRIEF.
1. All children between 7 and 14, unless sick, feeble-minded, at an approved private school, or other- wise instructed in branches required by law, to the satisfaction of the School Committee, must attend the public school during the entire time of each school year. Penalty to parent or gaurdian for failure in attendance for five days' sessions within any period of six months, $20 .- Revised Laws, Chap. 44, Sect. 1.
2. No child under 14 shall be employed "in any factory, workshop, or mercantile establishment." "No such child shall be employed in any work performed for wages or other compensation" during the hours
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when the public school is in session, nor before six o'clock in the morning, nor after seven in the evening. - Chap. 106, Sect. 28.
3. No child under 16 shall be employed in any factory, workshop or mercantile establishment without a certificate from the Superintendent of Schools. He must present an employment ticket from the person who wishes to employ him, on applying for a certificate. The father, if living, and a resident, must sign the certificate of age; if not, the mother; if neither, the guardian .- Chap. 106, Sects. 29, 30, 31, 32.
4. Children between seven and sixteen must eith- er attend school or be regularly employed .- Chap. 46, Sect. 4.
5. Whenever a child is absent from school for the whole or a part of a session a written excuse stating cause of absence, and signed by a parent or guardian, . must be presented by the pupil on his return to school. -Chap. 44, Sect. 1.
6. Children must be vaccinated before attending school, but a certificate from a regular physician say- ing a child is an unfit subject for vaccination, allows attendance.
No child can attend school from a household in which there is a case of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet · fever or measles, or from a household exposed to a contagion from a household as aforesaid. Two weeks after the death, removal or recovery of the patient in a case of the first three mentioned, or three days after
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in a case of measles, the child may return, on presenta- tion of a certificate from the attending physician or from the Board of Health .- Chap. 44, Sect. 6.
7. "The last regular session prior to Memorial Day, or a portion thereof, shall be devoted to exercises of a patriotic nature."-Chap. 42, Sect. 20.
A United States flag, not less than four feet 8 in length, shall be displayed on the schoolhouse grounds or building every school day, when the weath- er will permit, and on the inside of the schoolhouse on other school days .- Chap. 42 Sect. 50.
Every child between seven and fourteen years of age, and every child under sixteen years of age who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, shall attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides during the entire time the public day schools are in session, subject to such exceptions as to children, places of attendance and schools as are provided for in section three of chapter forty-two and sections three, five and six of this chapter. Every person having under his control a child as described in this section shall cause him to attend school as herein required ; and if he fails for five day sessions or ten half day sessions within any period of six months while under such con- trol to cause such child, whose physical or mental con- dition is not such as to render his attendance at school harmful or impracticable, so to attend school, he shall upon complaint of a truant officer and conviction
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thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars Whoever induces or attempts to induce a child to absent himself unlawfully from school, or em- ploys or harbors a child who, while school is in session, is absent unlawfully from school shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
The school committee shall cause notice of the disease or defects, if any, from which any child is found to be suffering to be sent to his parent or guar- dian. Whenever a child shows symptoms of smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, chickenpox, tuberculosis, diph- theria or influenza, tonsilitis, whooping cough, mumps, scabies or trachoma, he shall be sent home immediately, or as soon as safe and proper conveyance can be found, and the board of health shall at once be notified .- Chap. 502, Sect. 4.
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CLASS OF '06
SOUTHBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL
Thursday Evening, June 21. "L'ESPRIT EST LE POUVOIR."
& PROGRAM.
MARCH .- "Fantasia." ORCHESTRA PRAYER. REV. GEORGE A. GORDON ALICE GOULD HASKELL
SALUTATORY.
ESSAY-"Rings." LUCY VICTORIA COMBERBACH JOHN BERNARD SILK
ORATION .- "The Panama Canal."
ORATION .- "Bill Posting in the United States."
THOMAS LIBERTY OLNEY
CHORUS .- "Sailing." THE SCHOOL
ESSAY .- "Four-Leafed Clover." BERTHA LOUISE CLEMENCE
ESSAY .- "Mosaics.". VENA MARJORIE MORSE ORATION .- "Improvements in Travelling in the 19th Century." ALFRED MICHEL BLANCHARD
ORATION .- "Do Arctic Explorations Pay?" FRANK TUTTLE HAYNES SELECTION .- "Prince of Pilsen." ORCHESTRA
ESSAY .- "The Marvels of Photography."
FLORENCE ELIZABETH HOOKER
ESSAY-"The Mission of Music." EULA LOUISE RICH
ORATION .- "Portsmouth Peace Conference."
EDWARD NICHOLAS KELLY ORATION .- "Choice of Companions." CHARLES FRANCIS WILLIAMS TRIO .- "Voice of the Western Wind."; THE SCHOOL ESSAY .- "Pedestrianism." HELEN ROWLEY ESSAY .- "Clara Barton." JESSIE MAUDE SHELDON GEORGE NEWTON VINTON
ORATION .- "Self-Help."
VALEDICTORY. ELIZABETH LINCOLN HYDE THE SCHOOL
CHORUS .- "Columbia Beloved."
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
BY CHAIRMAN OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
BENEDICTION. MARCH .- "Hurricane." ORCHESTRA
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CALENDAR FOR 1907-1908.
Spring term, eleven weeks, begins Monday, April 8 ; ends Friday June 21.
Fall term, sixteen weeks, begins Tuesday, Septem- ber 3 ; ends Friday, December 20.
Winter term, fourteen weeks, begins Thursday, January 2; ends Friday, April 3.
Spring term, ten weeks, begins Monday, April 13 : ends Friday, June 26.
HOLIDAYS.
Every Saturday ; Washington's Birthday ; Patriot's Day; Memorial Day : Labor Day ; Thanksgiving and the day following.
Patriotic exercises will be held in all the rooms the afternoon preceding Memorial Day.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Cemetery Committee.
In submitting this report we wish to express our approval of the way the Superintendent has managed the affairs of the cemetery. We submit his report as a part of our own and recommend that the town ap- propriate for the ensuing year seven hundred and fifty dollars.
S. K. EDWARDS,
L. WESLEY CURTIS, M. D. MORRILL,
J. J. DELEHANTY,
C. F. MORSE,
J. F. LARIVIERE.
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
TO THE CEMETERY COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN :-
The following is a statement of the financial con- dition of the Cemetery. You will see the account is overdrawn $96.29. The interest on a part of the fund is not paid until about the 20th of February. The ac- counts were closed this year February 1, so it will come in next year's account. Have received for the sale of lots and perpetual care the following sums :-
Perpetual care, 9,
$450 00
Sale of lots, 270 00
The fund March 1, 1906,
14,331 75
Amount of fund February 1, 1907, $15,051 75
Invested as follows :
Amherst Savings Bank,
$1,000 00
Dedham Institution for Savings,
1,000 00
Gardner Savings Bank,
992 50
Leicester Savings Bank,
1,000 00
Millbury Savings Bank, 445 00
North Adams Savings Bank,
1,000 00
Peoples Savings Bank, of Worcester,
1,000 00
Salem Savings Bank,
1,000 00
Southbridge Savings Bank,
1,600 00
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Springfield Institution for Savings,
$1,000 00
Ware Savings Bank, 1,000 00
Worcester County Institution for Savings,
1,000 00
Webster Five Cents Savings Bank,
1,014 25
Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank, 1,000 00
Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank,
1,000 00
$15,051 75
CEMETERY IMPROVEMENTS.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation,
$1,000 00
Interest,
481 14
Grass,
10 00
Grading lots,
36 00
$1,527 14
EXPENDITURES.
Orders drawn for men, teams, supplies, etc., all bills examined by the Committee each week, $1,623 43
Overdrawn, $96 29
SAMUEL WILLIAMS, Superintendent.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SEWER COMMISSIONERS
During the past year the Sewer Commissioners have constructed sewers on a portion of Chapin street and a line from Marcy street, over land of Du- paul, Young Optical Co. and the C. A. Dresser estate crossing Goddard court to the old sewer on Chapin street. This sewer was built for the express purpose of taking a large amount of sewerage out of Nuisance brook and to accommodate the factories of Dupaul, Young Optical Co. and the Harrington Cutlery Co., which employ a large number of hands. Our contract for the year 1906 shows an increase of 1553 feet of sewer, making now in actual use seven and forty- seven one hundredths miles of sewers. There are 486 buildings connected with this mileage, including five manufacturing establishments, six school buildings and three public buildings. These buildings empty in- to the sewers 1039 sinks, 1017 closets, 247 baths, 240 bowls, 33 urinals and 10 water motors.
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Sixteen filtration beds off Sandersdale road with a combined area of seven and one quarter acres receive a daily flow of between six and seven hundred thou- sand gallons of sewerage. This flow is largely in- creased by water from motors and roofs, which should not be allowed as the sewers were not built for such purposes. We have had measurements taken to as- certain the average daily flow of sewerage to the pres- ent beds and have made some investigations of the locality where other beds may advantageously be con- structed. Several additional beds are now urgently needed. And these should be built so as to allow an increase from time to time with the minimum of expense. Other and additional land for this purpose must shortly be acquired by the town. Together with the expense of construction and the laying of additional pipe, this will mean a large expenditure of money, which must be incurred in the near future.
The board is of the opinion that an immediate increase in filtration area should be made before the sewers are built ; but recommend that the Mechanics street section, including Charlton and Worcester streets, should be built next and as soon as possible.
Napoleon Berthiaume has been hired to care for the filter beds another year.
H. C. CADY, HENRY B. MONTAGUE, WILFRID J. LAMOUREUX,
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Board of Sewer Commissioners, Southbridge, Mass.
GENTLEMEN : -
The sewers built during the season of 1906 were about 400 feet on Chapin street from Dresser street Southerly and on private lard from Chapin street opposite R. A. Beckwith's property over land of Wells and Labonte to Goddard court; thence across land of Prince, C. A. Dresser Estate and Dupaul Young Optical Company to Marcy street.
Proposals for doing the work were received on August 11 from these bidders :-
George M. Bryne Co., Boston, Mass. $3,861 50
H. A. Hanscom, Boston, Mass. 4,284 60
W. B. Bryne, West Medford, Mass. 4,005 50
C. R. Gow Co., Boston, Mass. 4,011 00
The award was made to the George M. Bryne Co. and the contract was immediately signed and satis- factory bonds furnished.
Work was started on September 7, on Chapin street at the junction of Dresser street. Quite an amount of water and ledge were encountered, but the work progressed in a satisfactory manner considering the difficulties to be overcome. The work across pri- vate land from Chapin street to Marcy street was very bad to do. Being below the level of the bed of the brook and almost parallel thereto, water in the trench and ledge and boulders requiring blasting being met throughout the entire length of this line made progress slow. However the work was completed to our satis-
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faction and at a cost but slightly in excess of the successful bid for the work.
The abutters along both these lines started at once to connect their buildings with the sewer and before cold weather all except two residences had connections laid inside their cellar walls and in many cases the plumbing was immediately connected thereto.
HOUSE CONNECTIONS.
Applications for forty house connections were received during the past year. This including one manufactory, the Harrington Cutlery Co. There yet remains about twenty buildings along the seven and forty-seven hundreths miles of sewers not connected.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN A. WHITTAKER, Engineer.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR.
I wish to call your attention to the need of a suffi- cient appropriation for the repairs of sidewalks in the different parts of the town. During the last year side- walk repairs were made on Pleasant, West Main, High, East Main streets and in front of the engine house Globe Village, and repairs badly needed in other parts had to be overlooked on account of want of funds.
In addition to the appropriation already made I would suggest that a further appropriation be made for the improvement of Hamilton street, either by means of Hassam, Macadam or Block Paving.
The purchase of the steam roller has been a saving to the town. It was used in the building of Mechanics street from Main street to North street, also Worcester street, and in the repairing of streets in different parts of the town.
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The bridges of the town are in a fair condition, excepting the bridge on River street and that on Mechanics street in front of the works of the A. O. Company, both of which demand immediate attention.
Respectfully submitted, AIMEE LANGEVIN, Highway Surveyor.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
LIBRARY OFFICERS.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
J. A. WHITTAKER,
D. F. MULLINS,
PITT H. HEBERT,
DANIEL T. MORRILL,
CARY C. BRADFORD,
Term expires 1907 Term expires 1907 Term expires 1907 Term expires 1908 Term expires 1908 Term expires 1908
GEO. M. CHENEY,
F. E. CORBIN,
- Term expires 1909 Term expires 1909
ALBERIC THIBAULT,
JAMES F. EARLS,
- Term expires 1909
LIBRARIAN. ELLA E. MIERSCH.
ASSISTANT. MABEL W. PLIMPTON.
JANITOR. JOHN COGGINS.
LIBRARY HOURS. Week days, except legal holidays, 10 to 12 a. m .; 2 to 5.30; 6.30 te 9 p. m.
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REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance to credit of account
March 1, 1906,
$102 10
Appropriation at the annual
town meeting, 1700 00
Received from librarian, fines, etc., 98 03
935 39
Dog fund,
$2,835 52
EXPENDITURES.
Ella E. Miersch, librarian, salary
and sundry expenses, $839 95
M. W. Plimpton, salary as assist- ant, 336 00
John Coggans, salary as janitor,
83 50
Southbridge Gas & Electric Co., 213 43
H. Oldham, agent, rent of extra rooms, 75 00
E. C. Ellis, coal, 77 50
Susan Sayles, cleaning,
13 95
Library Bureau, supplies,
17 10
Library Art Club, subscription,
6 00
H. W. Wilson, indexes,
11 00
Lamoureux Bros., stools,
5 25
Office, Bank & Library Co.,
kinders, 5 00
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REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
R. R. Bowker, library index, $3 00
Robert Wardle, painting, etc., 18 37
J. S. Wesby, binding catalogues, 7 50
Stone & Forsyth, paper,
10 50
R. A. Beckwith, stamped envelopes,
10 60
Southbridge Press, printing. 18 00
A. D. Cornell, wood, 1 75
Southbridge Water Supply,
10 00
C. L. Chase & Son, waxoil,
5 75
E. L. Gay, repairs, 1 50
E. H. Boulton, frame, 1 35
Oldham & Ranahan, repairs, etc.,
2 55
Gaylord Bros., supplies,
9 10
Alexis Boyer, repairs,
1 55
H. H. Ballard, binders,
5 50
$1,790 70
BOOK ACCOUNT.
Henry Malkan, books,
$310 35
Old Corner Bookstore books,
: 180 28
Cedric Chivers, books, 44 39
F. J. Barnard & Co., binding,
134 50
E. F. Dakin, papers and periodicals, 179 20
McDevitt- Wilson, books, 47 30
University of Chicago Press, books,
4 22
T. H. Castor & Co., books,
2 13
Directors of Old South Work books,
2 50
Alice J. Jones, book, 1 06
A. S. Burbank, book,
3 00
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Charles E. Lauriat Co., book, $2 25
Union Library Association, book, 2 65
R. R. Bowker, book, 3 27
American Educational Co., directory, 3 50
Superintendent of documents, portrait index, 3 00
Henry R. Hunting, books, 7 00
Bates and Guild Co., book, 3 75
F. J. Blanchard & Co., year book, 2 00
$936 35
Total amount received for library,
2,835 52
Amount expended, expense ac-
count, $1,790 70
Amount expended, book account,
936 35
2,726 05
Balance to credit of account
February 1, 1907, $108 47
MYNOTT FUND.
RECEIPTS.
Balance to- credit of account,
March 1, 1906, $1,030 77
Interest on fund to Jan. 1, 1907, 40 20
$1,070 97
EXPENDITURES.
Boston Book Co., magazines, $12 00
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N. F. Carter, book, $6 00
J. D. Pearson, books, 30 00
E. F. Dakin, subscriptions to Christian Advocate and Meth- odist Review,
3 80
McDevitt-Wilson, books 19 00
$70 80
Balance to credit of account,
February 1, 1907, $1,000 17
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
The library statistics of the present report cover 11 months instead of the usual 12 months. This has been necessitated by the change in the town's fiscal year, which now begins February 1 instead of March 1. On this account it is somewhat difficult to draw comparisons between the library records of this and former years. During these 11 months, however, the progress of the library seems to have been very satis- factory. The records show an increase of 5 per cent. in . the circulation of books for home use over that of the corresponding 11 months of last year. 28,173 volumes have been circulated, which is 1261 more than were circulated during the corresponding 11 months of 1905-6, and only 66 less volumes than were given out two years ago during the whole 12 months.
Of the total circulation of 28,173, 11,322 volumes were works of fiction. More than the usual number
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of books of non-fiction for boys and girls have been purchased during the year. The smaller children eagerly read these books of history, travel and legend- much more so, in fact, than do the older boys and girls.
The number of volumes added to the library during the year is 568. Among these are 30 volumes of Anthony Trollope's novels. The "Library of literary criticism," edited by Charles W. Moulton is a valuable addition. Among the scientific and technical books purchased are Holland's "Moth book," Dickerson's "Frog book," Iles' "Inventors at work," Isham's "His- tory of American painting" and Hasluck's "Book of photography." The new books of travel are unusually attractive and too numerous to mention. We have received as gifts nine additional volumes of the vital statistics of Massachusetts towns.
The number of volumes rebound has been 256. We have tried the experiment of having about 40 books put in a special library binding-the Chivers patent . binding. These bindings are higher in price than the ordinary binding but their ability to resist hard usage is so great that they are said to be cheaper in the end. It would seem to be a wise economy to have all worn out books replaced in this binding.
48 volumes of periodicals have been bound during the year.
The reading 100m has never been used so much as it is at present. At times there are not enough seats for the readers, but the size of the room does not war-
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rant the addition of many chairs. In the magazine list Putnam's monthly has been substituted for the Bookman, and the American magazine has been added to the list.
The study clubs have, as usual, come to the library for assistance in their courses of reading and the school boys and girls for help in their studies.
The mounted pictures have been taken out to some extent, probably not so much as they would be if the collection was larger.
The new registration numbers 2730, 461 names having been added to the list since March, 1906. The library has adopted the method of stamping on the reader's card the date when the book is due instead of the date on which it is taken out. This facilitates the discharging of the book and also tells the reader plainly when his book'is due. We are gradually placing card pockets in the backs of books of fiction, children's books and books in French.
The crowded condition of the library makes it very difficult to permit access to the most popular shelves. Either the patrons at the shelves or those waiting at the desk are delayed and inconvenienced.
The Library art club has sent us from time to time photographs of the following : Canterbury, Rome, American parks, Florence, China, Evangeline, Paris, Japan. These exhibitions have been attended by a large number of people and have proven to be of very general interest.
The most interesting of the gifts of the year has
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come from Mr. George Grant. It is a poster giving the schedule of the Providence and Southbridge accommo- dation stage of seventy years ago. This interesting document has been framed and hung in the reading room.
The librarian has been granted a four months' leave of absence, beginning February 1. Miss Martha E. Spafford, a graduate of the University of Vermont and of the New York state library school has been engaged to act as substitute librarian during this time.
ELLA E. MIERSCH,
Librarian.
ACCESSIONS.
Bound volumes in library March
1,1906;
20,057
Added by purchase,
430
by gift,
70
by binding periodicals,
68
568
20,625
Worn out 49, replaced 49,
0
Bound volumes in library Febru-
ary 1, 1907, 20,625
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Pamphlets in library March 1,
1906, 1,516
Added, 43
Pamphlets in library February
1,1907, 1,559
CIRCULATION.
Days library was open,
283
Volumes circulated,
28.173
Average daily use,
99.5
Smallest daily use, Jan. 1,
17
Largest daily use, March 31,
218
Largest monthly use, March, 3,229
Smallest monthly use, September,
2,066
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REGISTRATION OF READERS.
· Names registered (new registration) March 1, 1906, 2,269
Names registered March 1, 1906-February 1,1907, 461
Names registered February 1, 1907, 2,730
ACCESSION AND CIRCULATION
| Volumes added 1906 -. 7
Now in Library.
Volumes circulated in 1905-6.
Volumes circulated ill 1906-7.
Per Cent. circulated in 1906-7.
Fiction,
110
2579
11893
11322
40.19
Children, Fiction,
43
770
6328
6582
23.36
Children. Non-fiction,
47
416
2478
2602
9.24
History,
25
1485
466
361
1.28
Piography,
24
1476
362
293
1.04
Travel,
50
1185
914
868
3.08
Science,
17
543
412
375
1.33
Useful arts,
26
521
332
320
1.14
Fine arts,
26
381
410
413
1.47
Sociology,
19
702
243
225
.79
Literature,
19
2201
735
802
2.85
Religion,
8
533
165
105
.37
Philosophy & bibliography,
8
302
Bound periodicals,
68
2466
658
325
1.15
Law reports of Mass.
2
226
Mass. public documents,
25
1824
10
11
.03
U. S. public documents,
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