WILLIAM W. APPLETON. JOHN L. CADWALADER. SAMUEL GREENBAUM. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY. EDWARD KING. LEWIS CASS LEDYARD. ALEXANDER MAITLAND. HENRY C. POTTER. GEORGE L. RIVES. CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. EDWARD W. SHELDON. GEORGE W. SMITH. FREDERICK Sturges. GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. OFFICERS President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D. First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D. Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq. Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 425 Lafayette Street. 10th Street, 331 East. 13th Street, 251 West. 22d Street, 230 East. 23d Street, 209 West. 34th STREET, 215 East. 40th Street, 501 West. 42d Street, 226 West. 50th Street, 123 East. 51st Street, 463 West. 58th STREET, 121 East. 67th STREET, 328 East. 69th Street. (TOMPKINS SQUARE.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.) Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQuare.) Near 7th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG. Department Headquarters.) Between 10th and 11th Avenues. (ST. RAPHAEL'S.) Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE Bruce.) Near Lexington Avenue. (CATHEDRAL.) Near 1st Avenue. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (RIVERSIDE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 77th Street. 1465 Avenue A. (WEBSTer.) 79th Street, 222 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue. (ST. AGNES. BLIND LIBRARY.) 96th STREET, 112 East. Between Lexington and Park Avenues. Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE.) (AGUILAR.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) 100th Street, 206 West. 10th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th STREET, 224 East. 135th STREET, 103 West. 145th Street, 503 West. 156th Street. Near 3d Avenue. Near Lenox Avenue. (HAMILTON GRANGE.) 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.) During the month of August there were received at the Library, by purchase, 1,016 volumes and 487 pamphlets; by gift, 887 volumes and 1,498 pamphlets; and by exchange, 37 volumes and 174 pamphlets, making a total of 1,940 volumes and 2,159 pamphlets. There were catalogued 1,371 volumes and 882 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 1,033, and of slips for the copying machine 1,573; from the latter were received 8,200 cards. The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Exhibition at the Lenox during the month: The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction) Clemens' "Christian Science," Ibsen's Plays, Spencer's "Education "; (adult fiction): De Morgan's "Alice-for-Short," Williamson's "Princess Virginia," Mason's "Running Water "; (juvenile fiction): Wiggin's "New Chronicles of Rebecca," Lang's Fairy Books, Barbour's "Crimson Sweater." Gifts of the month worthy of mention came from the following: Henry C. Rew, his "Wonders of the World Abroad. . . illustrated with numerous remarkable camera pictures, privately imprinted for Henry C. Rew and dedicated to the Old Guard at a memorable dinner given in Buffalo, Friday evening, September 15, 1905," issued in an edition of 500 copies from the Mathews-Northrup press; Ira H. Brainard, Facsimile reprint of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address, New York, 1860; from the Century Company, a collection of 196 volumes and 539 pamphlets, periodicals, government documents, etc.; from Micajah Pratt Clough, Impressions of two bookplates by E. D. French; from General Charles L. Davis, his "North Carolina Society of Cincinnati," Boston, 1907; from Doctor S. A Green, a miscellaneous collection, including his "Lawrence family of Groton, Massachusetts," etc.; from Samuel V. Hoffman, "A memorial biography of the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman," by Theodore Myles Riley, 2 volumes, privately printed at the Marion Press, Jamaica, N. Y., 1904; from L. S. Holtzoff, his "Contemporary America," Vol. 1, 1907; from the Kaukasische Museum and Öffentliche Bibliothek in Tiflis, their "Bericht " for 1903, 1904, and 1905; from William O. McDowell, 42 numbers of the "Courrier de la Conference de la Paix "; from Ralph Modjeski, a copy of "The Thebes Bridge: a report to the President and Directors of the Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company," by Alfred Noble and Ralph Modjeski, Chief Engineers (Chicago, 1907); from Luis Thayer Ojeda, a copy of his "Thayer family of Brockworth according to the researches of Rev. Canon William Bazcley," Santiago de Chile, 1907; from the Railroad Gazette, a collection of 154 volumes and 5 pamphlets, mainly books relating to mining, engineering, etc.; from M. Reid and Company, a copy of the "Fiftieth anniversary of M. Reid and Company, containing illustrations of some of the buildings recently erected by this Company"; from the Scientific American, 55 volumes and 532 pamphlets, a miscellaneous collection of periodicals, etc.; from Wilbur Marcy Stone, 23 bookplates designed by himself; and from Henry Winslow, 3 etchings by himself. At the LENOx Branch the exhibition of etchings, lithographs and other prints. by contemporary German artists, and the collection of bookplates, remained on At the ASTOR Branch the exhibition of plates from H. S. Williams' "History of the Art of Writing" was continued, as was also the collection of original etchings by American artists. Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the circulation branches were as follows: HUDSON PARK, Gardens; BOND STREet, Harvest days, Music, School days; OTTENDORFER, Hendrik Hudson, Deutsche Romane; TOMPKINS SQUARE, Birthdays of celebrated men and women, Holland and the Dutch, Labor day, Our navy; JACKSON SQUARE, Summer day; MUHLENBERG, Arabian Nights' Entertainment, Some stories for vacation days; 34TH STREET, Philippines, Korea, Panama, Stories of the railroad; 67TH STREET, Books about the baby, Books for our gardeners, Fairies; RIVERSIDE, Tales of the sea, Vacation stories; ST. AGNES, Books on Holland, Books for little folks; 125th STREET, Fairy stories, Labor; BLOOMINGDALE, Tragedies of childhood, Flying machines; HAMILTON GRANGE, The little librarian, Fishing; MOTT HAVEN, Notable people, Travel; STAPLETON, Play days, The sea, Vacation reading; TOTTENVILLE, Robert Fulton, Golden numbers. |