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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...Library ESTABLISHED 1876: MADE A FREE LIBRARY 1898 YY LIBRARY COMMITTEE GARDINER LATHROP, Chairman. FRANK A. FAXON. CARRIE WESTLAKE WHITNEY. Editor. ILLUSTRATION. Dating back a decade or more the art of illustrating books and newspapers has been growing in favor each year; new and improved processes are constantly devised, until the books, magazines, and newspapers of to-day entertain, amuse, and educate as much through the eye as through the ear. Suggestion is one of the strongest forces in life, and suggestion through illustration is unlimited in its application. The ear and the eye constantly receive impressions which form pictures, heightened, and vivified by the imagination; impressions through the eye are instantaneous and direct, consequently more impressive. Read Paul Revere's ride to a group of children, they are passively attentive, but show them the picture of the dashing rider and it immediately awakens thought, arouses interest and creates a desire for further information. A child will read, with dull eye and listless manner, a description of an elephant, but call his attention to the pictured animal and sec the enthusiasm in every feature; as an illustration, a diminutive colored boy, bright and alert, went into a book store and bought a first reader. The book accidently opened at a picture of a cow chasing a little boy; the picture was very realistic; the cow, with head down and horns threatening, was close to the victim; the little colored boy closed the book and started home on a run; after a block or two was passed, curiosity overcame fear, and he again opened the book, glanced at the picture and with a relieved sigh, said: "She ain't kotch 'im yit." Illustration is the key, the open sesame to the child's imagination, t...