Excerpt from Encouraging Experiences of Reading and Recreation Rooms: Aims of Guilds; Nottingham Social Guild; Existing Institutions, as the Young Men's Christian Association and Their Reading-Rooms, and Hints How to Obtain Really Good Books at Moderate Prices From different parts of Great Britain and Ireland about reading-rooms. Some of the writers kindly give 'me the benefit of their experience, while many ask for hints how to establish them. I em very grateful to those kind friends who have given me details of the working of their rooms, and I propose to choose from a mass of informa tion that has been supplied me, some particulars that may be useful to others. It is hardly pos sible to lay down general rules for the establish ment of reading or recreation rooms, as so much depends on the places Where they are to be estab. 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.