What the Masses Read.—The Booklovers' Library is a library of books issued within the year. It aims to furnish only what is wanted. It declares that nowhere can a better list be found. It lists in the Booklovers' Magazine 3 books on Science and Nature Study; 5 on Religion; 6 on Economics and Sociology; 10 on Politics and History; 31 on Biography and Memoirs, many of them indifferent; 6 on Domestic Economy and Recreation; 16 on Criticism, Anecdote, and Essays; 2 on Poetry and Drama; 9 on Travel and Description; and on Fiction, 156. It goes without saying, and the titles and books bear out the fact, that fully one-half of the above, outside of the fiction, are light, ephemeral, designed merely for entertainment; and yet there are nearly twice as many books on fiction as in all other classes—good, bad, indifferent—put together. The effect of such mental fodder on the minds of a people is certainly weakening, cheapening, deteriorating.