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occurring needing solution. The possession of Indian dictionaries, some of 

 which are supplied by the Historical Society, should be kept in view, for the 

 purposes of trade, etc. It can easily be seen that in no department can 

 there be a more useful library provided than in the broad field of linguistics. 



THE FINE ARTS. 



One of the greatest wants in the city is authoritative treatises and care- 

 ufl illustrations in the fine arts of painting and sculpture. We are absolutely 

 without this means of culture in any public place. A Reference Library 

 of expensive works, containing the pictures and the work of the greatest 

 artists, is imperatively demanded. We are too young yet to get great 

 pictures themselves. They are hard to obtain and beyond our resources; 

 but we may have splendid prints of all the great pictures by the expenditure 

 of a comparatively moderate sum. Art and literature will claim more and 

 more devotees as our city grows. 



SCIENCE. 



Social, political, medical, and general natural science are all repre- 

 sented in libraries of any position or standing. The problems of public 

 utilities, of taxation, of civil government, of political organization, should 

 be freely accessible to all our working men. This is the age of the common 

 people. Every facility should be given for supplying the numerous voting 

 class with materials of study and reference. Then applied science, is 

 dealing with lighting, heating, sewerage, power, city paving, water supply, 

 and other such problems should be well represented. Winnipeg will yet be 

 the home of the industrial arts. Factories will increase. Every industrial 

 question should have some authorities in the Reference Library where it 

 may be studied. 



GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. 



Valuable works on geography, travel and topography are out of the 

 reach of the mass of the people. Why should they be debarred from in- 

 creasing their intelligence and widening their view of things? When men 

 and their families cannot afford to go abroad and travel, they may largely 

 supply the lack by the well chosen and authoritative books of travel. So 



