Vaižgantas - literatūros leidinių mokyklai recenzentas

Since 1920 Vaižgantas actively cooperated with the Ministry of Education and its two departments - Commission of Book Publication and Commission of Books and Teaching Aids Inspection. Vaiþgantas wrote 78 reviews where he evaluated 82 publications for these commissions in the period 1924 through 1932. Vaižgantas reviewed most significant works of such Lithuanian authors as K. Binkis, K. Jasiukaitis, A. Lastas, Lazdynų Pelėda, P. Mašiotas, K. Pakalniškis, Uncle Atanazas (Dėdė Atanazas), G. Petkevičaitė-Bitė, R. Striupas, S. Šemeris, A. Vaičiulaitis, J. Rainys also works of the world classics such as L. Andreyev, Ch. Dickens, K. Hamsun, M. Maeterlinck, A. Mickiewicz, H. Sienkiewicz, J. Słowacki, R. Tagore, I. Turgenev, and Voltaire. Vaižgantas assessed first of all literature works intended for schools from the educational and ethical points of view, striving to provide schoolchildren with specific works with regard to cognitive and aesthetic aspects. He gave a special consideration to the linguistic expression of publications. For school libraries Vaižgantas recommended only nice and correctly written books of Lithuanian authors and world literature works translated in a good style