Libraries in Mental Hospitals

Libraries in hospitals are now an accepted principle in this country and some others, but before they can reach perfection their establishment in mental hospitals calls for more study, for very ready co-operation by all concerned, and also for much imagination and sympathy. One day when going into a ward of particularly distressed and depressed women, I felt compelled to speak to one who looked unbearably unhappy. I merely asked her if she liked reading. Seldom have I seen an adult's face light up as can a child's, when she replied, " Oh, if you could only get me