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Updated: May 10, 2025

What more inspiring or pleasing reading than some of Longfellow's poems, or the Vicar of Wakefield, or Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, or Saintine's Picciola, or selections from the poems of Holmes, Whittier, Kipling, or Lowell? For all these and similar wants, the library has an unfailing supply.

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books: and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

I arose, walked to the front, and made my best bow. Then I said: 'I waited until yesterday because I knew absolutely nothing about my subject' the audience laughed 'and I could find nothing either here or in the library at home, so last night I reviewed Saintine's masterpiece, "Picciola." "Then instantly I began to read.

Gene Stratton-Porter - At the Foot of the Rainbow