populo a populo instituta. Perhaps it might do to make it Populo, pro populo, a populo; though the first word might be objected to on the ground that its form is ambiguous and can be either dative or ablative, and that there is no word for it to depend upon. I do not think it would be absolutely incorrect, but either of the others would be preferable, and the second I like the best: Bibliotheca pro populo a populo instituta, or Pro populo bibliotheca instituta a populo.

"With all my high appreciation of the Latin and its literature, I am opposed to the pedantry of placing a Latin motto over the door of an American popular library."

THE NEW LIBRARY PROFESSION.-On page 78, vol. 3, is a note on Prof. J. W. Mallet's suggestion, that the leading libraries should advertise professional literary workmen, who, for a fixed price per hour, would make investigations on any subject. Such men would be able, from close acquaintance with the libraries and from experience in such work, to do more than double the work of a stranger or novice, and students at a distance could be saved the annoyance of a special trip. Unless there be some such arrangement they hesitate to ask of the most overworked of all professions, the librarians, such a service. I write this note to suggest an improvement for some time in use by Mr. Cutter of the Boston Athenæum. One of the regular cataloging force is an expert in this work, and attends to calls for services at a fixed price. When not occupied with outside work she goes forward with her cataloging. By this plan almost any library can establish such a department, while few would expect enough patronage to support a qualified person. I propose that this be made a regular department of the library, and that any one may send a note of inquiry, which will be given to the assistant in charge to look up, answer, and return, with a bill for the time required. The assistance would be keenly appreciated by many who would be only too glad to pay a moderate charge for such service. To advertise such assistance free of all charge might bring more work than could be attended to, but experiment would determine for each library. If it was found unnece ecessary, the charge might be omitted and the service rendered without sending any bill. What libraries will lead in announcing this department ?

SIZE NOTATION.-H. R. T. suggests that the word "size" should be restricted to indicating height, breadth and thickness. But would it not be clearer to discontinue the use of this ambiguous word altogether, substituting "dimension," or "dimensions" in one of its meanings, and "form" in the other?-JOT, in Monthly notes.

GENERAL NOTES.

UNITED STATES.

ST. LOUIS PUB. SCHOOL LIB.-The Board of Managers reported to the School Board in favor of the re-election of Mr. Crunden as librarian. During troubles in the library, previous to Mr. Crunden's administration, Mr. Soldan had been appointed "Actuary," for the purpose of having an independent oversight of the financial affairs of the Library. The difficulty disappeared under the new head, and the actuary, having little to do, was made also cataloguer. This semi-independence of an important part of the administration did not work smoothly, and when the election came up in the School Board opposition was developed to Mr. Crunden's re-election. It was alleged that this opposition was stimulated by Mr. Soldan, who was a German, and that a caucus of German and Irish members had agreed to make Mr. Soldan librarian and an Irish candidate actuary. This led to heated investigations, in which Mr. Soldan was asked to make publicly any charges he had against Mr. Crunden. He demurred to this course, and the movement against Mr. Crunden failed, by a vote of 12 to I. An investigation was then had in the case of Mr. Soldan. A charge that he had made false and malicious charges against Mr. Crunden, whom he accused of issuing life-membership certificates contrary to the rules, in his own interest, was sustained, 6 to 4. Another, that he had failed to devote the specified time to cataloguing, was not sustained, 9 to 2. The case now goes back to the managers and the full School Board. The St. Louis press warmly supports Mr. Crunden, but some of the Board have suggested the extraordinary solution of settling the difficulty by "getting rid of both of them."

IOWA STATE LIB. PROTECTION.-Extra care of the books is proposed in the following act :

An act to amend chapter thirteen, title twelve, of the code, in relation to the State Library.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, From and after the taking effect of this act, no books, maps, charts or papers, belonging to the State Library, shall be removed from the Capitol building, except to remove the same from the old Capitol building to the new Capitol building, when such building shall have been prepared to receive the same.

Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, so far as the same conflict with this act.

Sec. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force as soon as published in The Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa.

Approved, March 20, 1880.

UNION THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.-The Union Theological Seminary, New York City, has received a gift of $100,000 for its library from exGov. E. D. Morgan. Mr. Morgan's letter states that he is "desirous of showing his appreciation of the usefulness of the Union Theological Seminary, and aiding it in the great work it is now doing for the country." The money will be used to form a fund which is to be called the "Edwin D. Morgan Library Fund." The new building to be erected will also bear his name. The officers and directors of the seminary hope to make this the best theological library for the use of clergymen and authors of all denominations.

The library now contains 36,000 v. and 38,000 pm. The nucleus of the collection was the library of Leander Van Ess. Valuable additions have been made from the libraries of the late Drs. Robinson, Sprague, Field, Marsh, Gillett, H. B. Smith and others. On the tables can be found the leading theological and literary reviews of England, Germany, France and the United States. Among the rare and valuable works are 430 incunabula from A. D. 1469 to 1510, 4,209 titles in church history, patristics, canon law, etc.; about 200 editions of the Vulgate and of German Bibles; 1,246 numbers of Reformation literature; and books and pamphlets relating to the Westminster Assembly, and the Deistic and Trinitarian controversies of the eighteenth century.

WARE (Mass.) YOUNG MEN'S LIB. ASSOC. In view of the offer made by Mr. Hitchcock to give the lot on the corner of Main and Church streets for a building for the library, if the means for erecting it can be obtained, Hon. Wm. Hyde has undertaken, in case the whole of the lot, say fifty by one hundred and twelve feet, is conveyed to the association to be used solely for library purposes, to furnish toward the erection of the building ten thousand dollars, as it may be needed

for that purpose. His letter says:· :-"The first

floor may be used for a library, reading-room and committee room, from which I hope the rules of the association will exclude the use of tobacco, so that ladies and all persons of culture and refinement may not be annoyed. And if a lecture room can be made on the second floor, to be used for literary exercises, or entertainments suitable for the purpose of a library which is designed to elevate the tone of society, it may be a source of profit to the association. I should be sorry to have my name associated with a dance hall or with any low exhibitions."

HAVERHILL (Mass.) PUB. LIB.-This library has a generous friend in Hon. E. J. M. Hale, who each year for five years has sent his check for

$3,000 to the City Council, to defray that much (about two-thirds) of the administrative expenses of the library, and has also given $1,500 yearly (this year $2,000) for the purchase of books. The dog tax is also devoted to the latter purpose, amounting for 1879 to $928.87.

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WEST BROOKFIELD (Mass.).—The library has now 2,937 v., the accessions being 355. drawn, 13,693, by 749 persons; $739 was expended for the library and reading-room,-$97 for the latter. Librarian T. S. Knowlton has procured copies of the annual reports of the selectmen for every year but 1849, the first that was issued, and if he can get one for that year they will be bound together.

THE Regents of the University of California report the additions to the library in 1877-9 at 1,844.

THE Redwood library at Newport, which was recently enlarged at a cost of $27,000, has just paid the last $6,000 of its debt.

MR. S. S. GREEN, of Worcester, has accepted an invitation to prepare a paper on the relations of the public library and the public school, for the American Social Science meeting at Saratoga next September.

THE library of Cornell University has received from Mr. W. P. Garrison a valuable collection of autograph letters which were received during the anti-slavery agitation and the years of the civil war by his father, the late William Lloyd Garrison.

THE George F. Blake Manufacturing Company, of Boston, proprietors of the Knowles steampump works at Warren, Mass., have given $100 for a free reading-room, and citizens have subscribed $200 for the same object.

NOVA SCOTIA.

LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY.-This library was formally re-opened, with the addition of the library of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Saturday, Feb. 28. Up to the time of the union, the first-named library had been steadily going to pieces, many volumes were wanting from sets, and the stock of local literature and periodicals was very meager. The Historical Society, started in 1878, possessed the beginning of a good collection of the latter, and the combination has awakened such public interest that valuable files of old provincial periodicals have been sent in from all sides, so that the 500 bound v. now include an almost complete set from 1764 to date, and it is hoped to complete this from 1752, the date of the first newspaper in that province. Rev. Chancellor Hill, President of the Historical

Society, said, in his opening address: "We have now the enthusiasm of a Society, joined to the stability of Government, and the security from destruction and accessibility to all enquirers secured by having these collections placed in the Legislative Library, would each year be found to be of increasing value." Donations are solicited, especially of books bearing on the province.

GREAT BRITAIN.

BRITISH MUSEUM.-The trustees of the British Museum have resolved upon permanently adopting the Siemens system of lighting by electricity, which has been in temporary use in the readingroom for some months. In order to provide greater security against any sparks of carbon that might fall, a glass tray has been placed under the lamps. The great increase in the number of hours during which readers have been enabled to avail themselves of the privileges of the Museum has given great satisfaction and been widely appreciated.

MITCHELL LIBRARY (Glasgow).—The library was opened Nov., 1877. The first annual reports of the convener (chairman) of the committee, Mr. Wm. Wilson, and of the librarian, Mr. J. T. Barrett, give a resumé of the origin of the library and its history from that date.

"The sum transferred by Mr. Mitchell's trustees to the Town Council was £66,998 10s. 6d., and the sum standing at the credit of the Library at 30th November last was £65,628 9s. 9d. It thus appears that the library of 28,000 volumes has been acquired; the rooms furnished comfortably and fittingly, if plainly, with book-cases, chairs and tables for 350 readers, and all other necessaries; and that more than two years' work, including the issue of nearly 600,000 volumes, and at least half that number of references to periodicals, has been done practically out of interest, the diminution of the capital sum being so slight."

It is hoped that a building may be erected by the city under the Free Libraries Act. The special collections are the "Poets' Corner," books about Glasgow, and books printed in Glasgow. The daily issues for the last three months of 1879, averaged 1,459 v.

PRESTON LIBRARY.-This town will presently enjoy one of the finest free library, museum and art buildings in the kingdom. The local authorities some time since proposed to the trustees of the Harris bequest for this purpose, amounting to £150,000, that they should advance a portion of this for the erection of a building. The corporation on its part has undertaken to provide the site,

valued at £20,000. The site is very advantageously situated about the center of the borough, and in order to clear it a large extent of property will have to be demolished. It will afford an area of about two acres, and the building will have three main frontages, one of these, the west frontage, immediately facing the fine new town and guildhall, which was erected some years ago from the designs of the late Sir Gilbert Scott. The sum which the Harris trustees grant for the erection of the building is £70,000, the whole of which will be expended.

THE Lambeth Palace Library has received from Mr. John Henry Parker, C. B., many of his works on Roman and English archæology, as well as others of a suitable nature. The architectural drawings by the late Edward Blore, F. S. A., of Lambeth Palace, as restored and enlarged by him about 1830, have also been presented by the Rev. E. W. Blore, of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The delegates of the Oxford University Press contemplate the issue of a series of volumes on subjects of original research, especially, and, in the first place, with the view of communicating to the public such materials as exist in great quantity in the Bodleian and the college libraries. It is known to some that there are large and unsuspected treasures in these depositories, and that great assistance would be given to historical study and philological criticism if use were made of these materials.

GERMANY

AT Dresden, in February, G. V. Moser's farce, "The Librarian," was put on the stage for the first time, and was well received. The librarian was represented as an owlish, lean and hungry-looking German scholar. The farce has since been given in New York.

RUSSIA.

THE valuable library of the late Count Gregory Stroganov has been presented by his son to the University of Tomsk, in Siberia.

ERRATA.-In March Bibliografy, p. 87, the brackets and all within them should be stricken out from title LEO, Willibald. In Mr. Foster's lists, p. 415, reference to Helps should read ser (ies) 2, not sec. 2; p. 42, “B. C. No. 34," on last line of page, designated the number of the sheet in Mr. Foster's "Bibliographical Collections," and should not have been printed; p. 80, the encyclical letter of Leo XIII. was dated Dec. 28, 1878, not 1879; p. 8119, read "the effects of the act, 186270," not "of 1862-70." Some of these were errors in copy, others in proof-reading; the literal errors, which were too abundant, are apologized for, but it is not necessary to note them.

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A deep piety is one of Mrs. Whitney's poetic characteristics; and we should have to seek far, this side of George Herbert, for poems in which the Christian music finds loftier expression.-Buffalo Courier.

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