Excerpt from The Library Journal, Vol. 29: Official Organ of the American Library Association, Chiefly Devoted to Library Economy and Bibliography; January-December 1904 All this merely to insist that phrasemaking and the elaboration of the obvious are not foibles of the sociologist only, but that every group is addicted to the same delusive pas time. My task is to make some new phrases for your professional activities, to put what you have always known into unwonted language, which, however, I hope may not be wholly unintelligible. I suppose that there is some profit in having in an outsider unhampered by too much special knowledge of your chosen field. His ill-concealed ignorance is, to be sure, diverting, but he serves a more im portant purpose in trying at least to relate your work in a large way to the great life tasks of society. This is worth while for two reasons. If you are puffed up with pride or feel the whole burden of human progress resting on your shoulders it is well to remind you that there are other agencies which have a hand in promoting the welfare of mankind; there are, so to say, other books in circula tion. 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.