Editorial August 27, 1910 Issue

SCIENCE AND HEALTH MOST WIDELY READ

Archibald McLellan

The frequency with which books on certain subjects are borrowed from the public libraries may be taken as fairly indicative of the degree of interest which these subjects have for the people at large. For many years now it has been the practice of Christian Scientists to see that all public and institutional libraries are supplied with enough copies of Science and Health and our Leader's other writings to meet the demands for these books, and as showing that there is a popular demand for our text-book through this avenue of information, we quote from a recent issue of the Boston Transcript as follows:—

Lists of the novels most popular with readers are often compiled by the public libraries. So too with juvenile books, and with books other than fiction. It must be said, however, that in the non-fiction classes the lists frequently consist of the titles of books which librarians or other persons think ought to be read. Exact statistics are not so often met with. This fact makes especially interesting a list complied by the circulation department of the St. Louis public library, and recently published in the report of that institution. It is a "list of non-fiction books circulating one hundred times or more at the central library during the year, May, 1909-April, 1910." The list is given herewith. The number set opposite each title is the number of times that book was issued during the year.

Eddy—Science and Health ... 618

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