Excerpt from Notes by the Way on Free Libraries and Books With a Plea for the Establishment of Rate-Supported Libraries in the Province of Ontario Tellier says: Much of our education, even our best education, is got out of school. Then how are we to attain this desirable end 3 for people cannot always be going to school? It follows that, in order to make up in some degree for that which has been either neglected or but partially performed, and to keep pace with the progress and requirements of civilization, communities should, during their leisure hours, resort considerably to books, and where books cannot be individually pro cured, then I hold that they should be obtained bv combined action. As supplements to ordinary education, as means for supplying to the masses what defective training or limited resources of money may have deprived them of, and as counter attractions to the many ener vating allurements which have crept into modern life, I look upon free libraries as the best possible agencies and material aids which can be devised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.