That enterprising Ennisman, Mr. J. Hayes of Church Street, has just added to his previous extensive collection of books in all classes of standard literature several hundred new volumes and formed a circulating library which presents many claims to public support. The books are all of a superior class, being the best works of the most popular, ancient and modern authors and great judgement has been displayed in their selection and arrangement.
A neatly printed catalogue has been issued and nothing that experience could suggest or enterprise supply has been left undone to suit the public taste and convenience. It supplies a want long felt in Ennis and it is surprising in a progressive town like our own with an educated, intelligent population, eager for literature of all kinds, that provision has not been made to satisfy a demand which only requires a little stimulus to assert itself and assume its proper proportion.
To the young men in our commercial houses and to the working classes, a library such as this is simply invaluable. Their limited means preclude them from obtaining the best works of the day, to dip into anything beyond the ordinary range of information contained in schoolbooks or in the periodical literature day is entirely beyond them and they must content themselves for entertaining and light reading with the trashy, sensational and often immoral cheap railway novels.
It is a boon, therefore, which it is to be hoped they will appreciate that for the small sum of one shilling per month, they can at Mr. Hayes' select from a library of one thousand volumes, the standard works of authors whose names are as household words, whose works and whose fame will last to the end of time but with whom otherwise, they would, perhaps, have no opportunity of becoming acquainted.