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N this library are gathered the most important records of the world's memory... The dreams and hopes, the joys and sorrows, the sayings and doings of the wisest men of all times and all countries are gathered here, and it is from these that our teachers, our legislators and our people must draw the stores and weapons with which to contend with the same ignorance, indolence, folly and vice which have led to the downfall of the cities and kingdoms of long ago.

John Shaw Billings, M.D., Lieut.-Col. U. S. A., Director of The New York Public Library, 1895-1913.

From an address at the opening of the new library building, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 27, 1908.

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INTRODUCTION

"In order that men may aspire it is necessary that they should have something to remember."

This reading list of books and articles on Patriotism has been prepared to meet an urgent need of our time - the need of familiarity with the literature in which the great ideas and ideals of freedom, justice and liberty are to be found.

It has been the aim of the compilers to include characters and countries, ancient and modern, whose names are commonly associated with the struggle for freedom.

The list is intended primarily for the reading of boys and girls of high school age and older, although it includes many books of genuine interest to the younger boys and girls who are readers in the children's rooms of The New York Public Library.

The purpose has been to provide short cuts to the most readable histories and biographies rather than to present critical or exhaustive references or the didactic type of histories especially prepared for young readers. This purpose would be defeated if the list laid any claim to being complete.

Many of the quotations were first used in the historical exhibit of books and pictures placed in the Central Children's room dur

ing the visits to America of the French, the British, the Italian and the Russian Commissions. This exhibit was continued throughout the summer of 1917.

Similar exhibits have been held in the children's rooms of the branch libraries and I will be continued with variations and additions designed to arouse and sustain patriotic sentiment of an enduring character.

The books and periodicals referred to in the body of the list appear also in a list* at the back, arranged alphabetically under the author, and including the name of the publisher. With few exceptions the books may be found at the branches of The New York Public Library.

* Out of print books and those primarily for refer ence use have been omitted from this list.

PATRIOTISM

Where liberty dwells there is my country.

Benjamin Franklin.

NATIONAL SONGS

I hear America singing. - Walt Whitman.

The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key. The music is an old English air. First sung in Baltimore during the War of 1812.

America, by Samuel F. Smith; with music by Henry Carey.

First sung in Boston, July 4, 1832.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe.

Written in Washington in 1861. Sung by Chaplain McCabe at Libby Prison on the announcement of the victory at Gettysburg, July, 1863.

The Marseillaise, by Rouget de l'Isle; with music by the author.

Written on the eve of the French Revolution in 1792. Sung by the Marseillais on their march to Paris.

Hymn of Freedom (Greek), by Solomos; with music by Manzaros. 1823.

Garibaldi's War Hymn, by Professor Mercantini; with melody attributed to Olivieri. 1859.

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