Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Immigrant and Library: Italian Helps; With Lists of Selected Books
The community life of our foreign colonies rapidly passes. Its picturesqueness and foreign customs vanish, its theatres and festivals. Even its music dies. And in spite of every effort its speech is lost.
The generation of the great mass of our German immi grants is, of course, rapidly passing - so rapidly that by the last census, in Spite of an immigration of seven hundred thousand for the decade, our total German-born population decreased by over three hundred thousand. This goes far to explain a stationary circulation. But it is also clear that these same people, the most literate, and the most tenacious of their national culture of all our earlier immigrants, have come so far into the practice of the English language, for getting their own, that further increase of German readers in our libraries is hardly to be looked for.
It is important for the immigrant to learn English more rapidly, and the library can greatly help in this. It is also important that the knowledge of foreign languages should be seriously cultivated among us. It could now easily be made a national accomplishment as it is in many countries of the Continent. Here again the library should greatly help.
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