Genre:

Extract, Reportage; Afterword

Publications extracted:

National Advocate

Subjects:

Libraries, Lecturing, Education, Class, Reading, Christianity

    Responding to the extracted report from a New York newspaper, the afterword states: 'Might not Apprentice-Libraries be established, including not only books on the arts, &c., but also others on general subjects, likely to interest and instruct young people of the labouring classes, and especially a careful and judicious selection of Religious Works'?