[No. 34.] By His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, etc. A Proclamation, for a Fast Day in March.

The governor's council orders that a proclamation be issued for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer. - Cal. Coun. Min., 95, quoted in Stokes's "Iconography," vol. 4, p. 383, under the marginal date of March 3, 1694.

[No. 35.] Anno Regni Gulielmi & Mariæ, Regis & Reginæ, || Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberna, Sixto. || The 24th of March, Anno Dom. 1694/5. || An Act for the raising and paying one hundred and || seventy Men for the securing of the Fronteers of || this Province, in the City and County of Albany. || [No imprint.) Folio, pp. 85-92. Sheetmarks Y and Z in twos.

The first supplement to the Law Book of 1694, and the first session of the Fourth Assembly, which lasted from March 1 to March 26, 1694. There are three typographical errors in the heading: (1) Hiberna for Hiberniæ, (2) Sixto for Sexto, and (3) 1694/5 for 1693/4. Four other acts are included besides the one titled in the heading. Described from the original in The New York Public Library.

[No. 36.] Truth Advanced || in the || Correction || of many || Gross & hurtful Errors; || Wherein is occasionally opened & explained many great and || peculiar Mysteries and Doctrines of the || Christian Religion. || By George Keith. || Whereunto is added, || A Chronological Treatise of the several Ages || of the World: || Showing the Intervals Time and Effects of the Seven Churches, || Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, and seven Vials, called, The seven last || Plagues, and the various dreadful Effects that are like to ensue at the || pouring forth of each of them, which is near at hand. || Together with an Account of the Time of the Churches going || into the Wilderness, her Return, full Restoration, and Universal || spreading of the glorious Gospel into all Nations of the Earth. || As also, the Time of the Personal Anti-christ his Reign and last || Persecution; With the Time of the Prophecying, Killing and Rising || again of the two Witnesses. || And Lastly, Concerning the Thousand Years Reign of the || Saints with Christ yet to come, and time of beginning thereof, only || by way of Essay and Hypothesis. || Printed in the Year 1694. || Quarto, pp. (10), 184; A Chronological Account of the several ages of the World, pp. 32.

Advertised at the end of the almanac for 1694 as "now in the Press." The author is said to have sailed for England in January or February, 1694, and it has been suggested that the printer's apology for the typographical errors is evidence that it was not completed until after that date. The Chronological Account has its own title-page, with imprint, Printed in the Year 1694. Copies are in the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the New York Historical Society, and other libraries.

[No. 37.] William Lancaster's Queries || to the || Quakers, || With The || ... ||... || [New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1693 or later.] Twelvemo.

A fragment comprising portions of two leaves, the title and preface, was found as an end sheet in the binding of a copy of Daniel Leeds's "Temple of Wisdom," printed by Bradford at Philadelphia in 1688, now belonging to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The binding must have been done after Bradford's removal to New York, because there are references in the fragment to the "Breach and Division...among the Quakers here in America," which would indicate a period as late as 1693. In the manuscript catalogue of books owned by Francis Daniel Pastorius, of Germantown, about the year 1715, there is a title, "William Lancasters questions," which is perhaps the same work. It was bound at the end of other pamphlets in a volume which began with George Keith's "Refutation of the Three Opposers of Truth," printed at Philadelphia by Bradford in 1690. See Learned's Life of Pastorius, 1908, p. 278.

[No. 38.] A Catechism for Children and others. [New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1693 or later.] Twentyfourmo.

The above title is advertised at the end of the almanac for 1694, among books to be sold by William Bradford at New York and Philadelphia. Fragments of a similar catechism or primer were found as end sheets in the binding of the same copy of Leeds's "Temple of Wisdom," mentioned under the preceding number. Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, who first made the discovery, thought they were part of a reprint of the New England Primer, but Mr. Paul L. Ford suggested that they might rather be from an American edition of the "Protestant Tutor," also by Benjamin Harris. Bradford imported catechisms and primers from England, and advertised them for sale; but the shape and condition of these fragments show them to be waste sheets from an edition printed in his own office. See Ford's "New England Primer," 1897, p. 17, and plate vi at pp. 22-23.

The preceding list includes a dozen titles that are represented by a single surviving copy, and half a dozen more known only from the records. There must have been others which have disappeared entirely. Although the first two titles are claimed for New York, the evidence is not conclusive. Bradford may have done some printing in Philadelphia during the month of May, and have delayed his removal until the governor went back to New York in June. He was one of the signers of the Philadelphia Address, which, although undated, was evidently presented in May or June. The exact date of Bradford's appointment is determined by the entry in the Council Minutes for October 12, 1693, where a warrant was ordered to be issued for twenty pounds, being his salary for six months, due on the 10th preceding. The next payment was ten pounds, for one quarter's salary, to January 10, 1694. These references were discovered by Dr. George H. Moore, of the New York Historical Society, in the manuscript records at Albany, and first printed in Wallace's "Address,” p. 63.

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RECENT GIFTS OF NEWSPAPER VOLUMES

TO THE LIBRARY

URING the year 1927, the Newspaper Collection was enriched by the of 9,115 bound volumes of New York City newspapers. These were acquired through the generosity of four of the City's newspapers: The Sun, The World, The New York Telegram, and The Journal of Commerce and Commercial. Many of these volumes are duplicates of those now on the shelves, but will be of great service as replacements in the case of fragile wood-pulp papers, now fast crumbling to dust. A considerable number, however, will supplement the files of certain newspapers, which have been lacking in years that are highly important to research workers.

From The Sun came 71 volumes of the New York Journal and New York American, 70 volumes of both the New York Times, and The World (morning), and 12 volumes of The Globe and Commercial Advertiser, a total of 223 volumes.

The World contributed 6,350 volumes. These are, for the most part, different editions of The World, the morning, evening, semi-weekly, triweekly, weekly, and Sunday editions, but other city newspapers were also included. The Newspaper Division is especially fortunate in securing files of these different editions. Except for the morning and Sunday World, and very short runs of the evening and weekly, these editions designed for circulation outside the City could not be supplied, before this recent gift.

The World, started as a semi-religious newspaper in 1860, presents in its files, an interesting development in American journalism and is especially valuable to students of this subject. The purchase of this paper by the aggressive and crusading Joseph Pulitzer in 1883, brought about an innovation in newspaper editing. Mr. Pulitzer also inaugurated many changes in the physical appearance of the newspaper, notably in the use of photoillustrations and comic supplements.

The New York Telegram has presented 1,735 volumes, chiefly files of The Evening Telegram, and The New York Herald. They include volumes of the Herald from 1836-1923, and the Telegram from 1867-1920. This means that the Library now has a nearly unbroken file of The New York Herald, and also of The Evening Telegram, commencing with vol. I, no. 73, September 24, 1867, and continuing through March, 1924. The New York Herald, especially for the early years, has been much in demand by historical research workers.

The Journal of Commerce and Commercial celebrated its one hundredth anniversary by issuing, on September 29th last, a 200-page centennial edition, ably edited by Mr. John W. Leonard. The New York Commercial, with which The Journal of Commerce is combined, dates much further back, for it began as New-York Prices Current in 1796. The Journal of Commerce was founded by Arthur Tappan, one of New York's successful merchants, as a commercial newspaper with a distinctly high moral tone. Mr. Tappan was joined in the management of the paper, after a few months, by his brother Lewis, but the Tappans were merchants and not newspaper men, so they soon disposed of their paper to Gerard Hallock and David Hale.

Hallock was editor-in-chief and proprietor of the paper from 1829-1861, and made the Journal of Commerce famous as the one great daily in the country devoted to business. He was succeeded by William Cowper Prime, 1861-1866, and David M. Stone, 1866-1893. The paper was then purchased by William Dodsworth, proprietor of a rival commercial paper, The Daily Commercial Bulletin, which he combined with The Journal of Com

merce.

The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin remained under the control of the Dodsworth family till 1921. The four sons of William Dodsworth continued to maintain the high standard of the paper after the death of their father in 1910. Mr. William C. Reick purchased the paper in 1921, but Mr. John Dodsworth, who was succeeded by Mr. Reick as president of the company, continued to be active in management until the paper was sold to Mr. Rafael R. Govin in 1923. Mr. Govin's term of proprietorship was terminated by his death in 1926.

The Journal of Commerce, together with the New York Commercial, came under the control of another famous newspaper family, when these two papers were purchased in 1926 by the Messrs. Ridder, owners of the Staats-Zeitung.

By the Messrs. Ridder's gift, the Library received 807 bound volumes, comprising an almost complete file of the Journal of Commerce, from 18271919, and various years of the New York Commercial, New York Commercial Bulletin, Shipping and Commercial List, New York Price Current Review, and Merchant and Banker.

L. F.

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AUSTRALIAN PRINTS

HOSE who follow the various manifestations of the present widespread practice of etching may have noticed the absence of one country, at least, among those whose activities are mirrored in the Library's annual exhibitions of recent additions to the print collection. Until last year, the Print Room had no work by Australians. Then, through Sydney Ure Smith, one of the editors of the quarterly "Art in Australia," a collection of etchings was presented to the Library. It has now been placed on exhibition in Gallery 316, where it will remain on view until March 1st.

In the "Print Collector's Quarterly" for October, 1924, Lionel Lindsay tells the story of "Etching in Australia." There was the first impetus given as early as 1885 by Livingston Hopkins, the American caricaturist, recently deceased. Then came the acquisition of the Haden collection by the Melbourne Gallery, which stimulated young artists who had to make their own etching materials. Finally, concerted effort brought the organization of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society in 1921.

The collection here exhibited, though not large, clearly shows the wide diversity in reflection of influence, in execution, in subject, in intention that appears in the work of this group of etchers. The "quiet charm" of Sydney Ure Smith, who has depicted the old quarters of Sydney; the brilliant emotional analyses of Norman Lindsay in the domain of Eros; the excursions of Gayfield Shaw and A. Henry Fullwood into still waters; the delicate tree designs of Bruce Robertson; Will Ashton's scenes in Florence and Paris, these are examples of individual response to the allurement of etching. Adrian Feint, J. A. Crisp, T. Friedensen, Cyril Dillon, Jessie C. Traill, Herbert R. Gallop, Sydney Long are further personal notes in this local hymn to the art of needle and acid.

To this exhibition of etchings there has been added a group of bookplates by Australians. These were presented to the Library by P. Neville Barnett, honorary secretary of the Australian Ex-Libris Society. There are ex-libris here by P. N. Barnett, T. R. Davis, Herbert R. Gallop, W. R. Johnson, P. M. Litchfield, J. Merrilies, C. G. Simmons, and D. H. Souter. The whole forms an interesting sample of Australian activity and expression in a special field of graphic art.

F. W.

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