W. VINCENT ASTOR
GEORGE F. BAKER, JR.
JOHN H. FINLEY
SAMUEL GREENBAUM
EDWARD S. HARKNESS
PATRICK CARDINAL HAYES
ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES

GRENVILLE KANE
LEWIS CASS LEDYARD
JOHN G. MILBURN
J. PIERPONT MORGAN
MORGAN J. O'BRIEN
WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS

FRANK L. POLK
WILSON M. POWELL

ELIHU ROOT

EDWARD W. SHELDON

I. N. PHELPS STOKES
HENRY WALTERS
BRONSON WINTHROP

JAMES J. WALKER, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio
CHARLES W. BERRY, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio
JOSEPH V. MCKEE, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio

OFFICERS

President, Lewis Cass LeDYARD, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
First Vice-President, ELIHU ROOT.

Second Vice-President, FRANK L. POLK.

Secretary, FRANK L. POLK.

Treasurer, EDWARD W. SHELDON, 45 Wall Street.

Assistant Treasurer, UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY, 45 Wall Street.
Director, EDWIN H. ANDERSON, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Assistant Director, H. M. LYDENBERG, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Chief of the Reference Department, KEYES D. METCALF, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
Chief of the Circulation Department, FRANKLIN F. HOPPER, Fifth Ave. and 42nd St.
Editor, ROBERT R. FINSTER, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

BUILDINGS AND BRANCHES

CENTRAL BUILDING, Fifth Ave. & 42nd St., contains general administrative offices of the whole system, all Divisions of the Reference Department, and the Central Circulation Branch, Central Children's Room, Library for the Blind, and the Extension Division. MUNICIPAL REFERENCE BRANCH, Room 512, Municipal Building. (Free for reference.)

MANHATTAN

CIRCULATION BRANCHES

33 East Broadway. (Chatham Square.)

192 East Broadway. (Seward Park.)

61 Rivington Street.

388 E. Houston St. (Hamilton Fish Park.)

66 Leroy Street. (Hudson Park.)

135 Second Avenue. (Ottendorfer.)

331 East 10th Street. (Tompkins Square.)

251 West 13th Street. (Jackson Square.)

228 East 23rd Street. (Epiphany.)

209 West 23rd Street. (Muhlenberg.)

303 East 36th Street. (St. Gabriel's Park.)

457 West 40th Street.

564 Lexington Avenue. (Cathedral.)

742 Tenth Avenue. (Columbus.)

121 East 58th Street.

328 East 67th Street.

190 Amsterdam Avenue. (Riverside.)

1465 Avenue A. Near 78th St. (Webster.)

222 East 79th Street. (Yorkville.)

444 Amsterdam Avenue. (St. Agnes.)

112 East 96th Street.

206 West 100th Street. (Bloomingdale.)

174 East 110th Street. (Aguilar.) 203 West 115th Street.

116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Room 108a, Columbia University Library. (Columbia Sub-branch.)

9 West 124th Street. (Harlem Library.) 224 East 125th Street.

518 West 125th Street. (George Bruce.) 103 West 135th Street.

BULLETIN OF

The New York Public Library

Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

PRINTED AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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HE Bulletin is published monthly by The New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street, New York City. Subscription $1.00 a year, current single numbers 10 cents. Entered at Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, February 10, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized. Printed at The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. October, 1928. Volume 32, Number 10.