High

Moderate

Low

Fair  Ellsworth

1935 1937
Listed in ALA -
Booklist

Not listed in
ALA Booklist

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DEFINITIONS OF ‘“QUALITY” LEVELS

Wilson &
Wight
1935

Carnovsky
1935
Listed

in ALA Catalog,

Krieg
1939
ALA

Booklist, e.g., Dickens, Conrad;

unlisted, but of high
merit

“Good modern,”
Morley, Lewis,
kington

.00

Ferber,

literary

Cather,
Tar-

“Light fiction,” adventure, mys-
tery, love and romance, e.g.,
Burroughs, Wallace, Grey, Dell,
Baldwin, Bailey, Norris

Scott
1943
Levels 5 & 6 in classifica-
tion by Foster, 1935;
e.g., Bronté, Clemens,
Conrad, Tolstoi, Haw-
thorne

Levels 3 & 4 in Foster
classification; e.g.,
Deeping, Doyle, Kip-
ling, Tarkington

Levels 1 & 2 in Foster
classification; e.g., Wal-
lace, Burroughs, Grey,
Porter, Bailey, Norris

Gscheidle
1948
Classics: standard titles
with an established lit-
erary place

Significant contemporary
novels

Popular stories, including
mystery, western, and
love stories