ABSTRACT
At Steeple Morden, in the county of Cambridge, the poor have been furnished with a circulating library of short tracts of a religious and moral nature. The idea had been originally suggested by a similar plan, useful in its way but not so peculiarly required, which has been adopted for the benefit of the children at the Foundling. The collection at Steeple Morden consists of the Cheap Repository tracts, and some few others of a similar kind; and has already, even at the beginning, proved of considerable benefit to the parish. There is hardly any thing which will be found more useful in promoting moral and religious improvement in a parish, than supply of Sunday reading for the poor, to fill up those hours which are not occupied by worldly employment.
