_3._ Give your opinion on how far foreign fiction should be represented in a public library. State whether you are in favour of the original works or of translations. (_b_) YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE:-- Great care should be taken in the selection of books for the Young People’s department. The tastes of the children must be the _chief_ guide, and this will depend to a considerable extent upon the locality in which the child lives. The facts of child psychology are always subject to local conditions. The selection of books for young people who reside in a residential town will differ, even if very slight, to the selection that should be made for children living in a busy industrial or manufacturing centre. Classical literature must not be forced upon young people, but it should be well represented in beautifully illustrated editions, to encourage the young people to read “the best.” The physical form of books selected must receive special consideration. Good paper, clear type and beautiful illustrations appeal to all readers. Cheap editions should be avoided. The aim of a juvenile collection is to create a reading adult with the ability to discriminate what he ought to read, for this reason educational editions are not recommended for purchase. Sensational literature is undesirable. Collections should be composed of works of romance and adventure, school stories, fairy tales, stories of home and domestic life. Books of a more serious nature however, must not be overlooked, and a choice selection made treating with the lives of the great men and women of all ages, botany, electricity, conduct of life, engineering, geology, history, sports and pastimes, aviation, wireless telegraphy, gardening, painting, art, natural history, etc. READING LIST. Bostwick--The making of an American’s library. _Boston, 1915, pp. 91-123._ Brown--The small library. _Chaps. 2 and 4, pp. 11-27; 55-70._ Brown--Books for very young children. _L.W. Vol. 9, 1906-07, pp. 282-9._ Cannons--Selection of books and editions for children. _L.A.R. Vol. 20, 1918, pp. 68-76._ Fay _and_ Eaton--Instruction in the use of books and libraries. _Part 2. Chaps. 14-23, pp. 193-381._ Field--Finger posts to children’s reading. _6th edition. Chicago, 1911._ Forbes _and_ Derthick--Children’s books and what constitutes a good edition. _P.L. Vol. 17, 1912, pp. 118-20._ Hazeltine, _editor_--Library work with children. _Classics of American Librarianship. H. W. Wilson Co.: New York, 1917; also Grafton, 7s. 6d. Special attention to pp. 23-45; 363-366._ Hulst--The organisation of the course in literature in secondary schools. _English Journal. Vol. I., 1912, pp. 72-83._ Hunt--Selection of children’s books. _In her Library work with children. A.L.A. Manual of library economy._ Jackson--The older girl and her reading. _Ont. Lib. Rev. Vol. 9, 1915, pp. 54-56._ Kelly--Selection of juvenile books for a small library. _P.L. Vol.14, 1909, pp. 308-9; 367-372._