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A Circulating Library Party

Each guest comes representing in person or dress the title of some book. All are given cards and pencils, and an hour is passed in reading the bound volumes and in "circulating." A guess as to the title of the book that each person represents is then written on each card, and the 1 person who guesses the largest number correctly is given a prize. A booby prize is also given. A game played to lengthen such an evening consists of guessing the meaning of a number of cards (the cards being passed from one to another) upon which are drawings each representing the title of a book. "The Little Minister," "The Orange Bow," "The Woman in White," "Darkest Africa," the "Ring and the Book," "The Rose of a Hundred Leaves," "The Squirrel Inn," and many other books that can be easily represented, but not so easily guessed will soon occur to one who is looking for a character for "The Circulating Library." Many others will be suggested by looking over the catalogue of some library. Another method of a library game is an observation of book titles. For this, have a large table in the center of the room and on it place objects to represent the title of books such as a little toy boat with three paper men in it and a little china dog beside the boat, this represents the title: "Three Men in a Boat, Say Nothing of the Dog," "Two in a Tower." Make a tower of cardboard and put a large figure 2 on top in the center. "Fair Women of Castile." A cake of castile soap and beside it two or three pictures of beautiful women. "Forum." Four little bottles in a row with the label "rum" on each. "Leather Stocking Tales." A piece of leather and two fur tails pinned to a stocking. "A Rose in Bloom." A picture of a full blown rose or a natural rose. "Nicholas Nickleby." A nickle (5 cents) the word us another nickle and a picture of a bee. "Pick Wick Papers." A tooth pick, a lamp wick, place these on two newspapers. "Trilby." Represent on a staff of music a note to be trilled and put a picture of a bee after it. Each guest should be supplied with a pencil and paper and at a given signal they try to guess from the objects on the table the title of the book; writing on their paper what they think it is. The hostess limits the time according to the number of books represented (say two or three quarters of an hour). A prize of a nice book is given to the one who guesses the most correct answers and a conundrum book to the booby.