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., 40 Lafayette Place. 10th Street, 331 East. 13th Street, 251 West. 22d Street, 230 East. 23d Street, 130 West. 34th STREET, 215 East. 40th Street, 501 West. 42d Street, 226 West. 50th Street, 123 East. 51st Street, 463 West. 59th STREET, 113 East. 67th STREET, 328 East. (TOMPKINS SQUARE.) Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) Near 6th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG.) Between 2d and 3d Avenues. Between 10th and 11th Avenues. (ST. RAPHAEL'S.) Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Department Headquarters.) Near 10th Avenue. (SACRED HEART.) Near Lexington Avenue. Near 1st Avenue. 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. (RIVERSIDE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 76th Street, 538 East. (WEBSTER.) 79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.) 86th STREET. 536 Amsterdam Avenue. 91st Street, 121 West. 100th Street, 206 West. 110th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th STREET, 224 East. Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) Near 3d Avenue. During the month of May there were received at the Library, by purchase, 813 volumes and 405 pamphlets; by gift, 1,309 volumes and 5, 121 pamphlets; and by exchange, 135 volumes and 914 pamphlets, making a total of 2,257 volumes and 6,440 pamphlets. There were catalogued 4,094 volumes and 3,734 pamphlets, for which were written 10,093 cards, in addition to which 4,887 slips were written for, and 17,328 cards received from, the copying machine. 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): Palmer's "With Kuroki in Manchuria," Landon's "The Opening of Tibet," and Hughes's "Contemporary American Composers"; (adult fiction): Ward's "The Marriage of William Ashe," Sinclair's "The Divine Fire," and Thurston's "The Masquerader"; (juvenile fiction): "Drysdale's "The Young Reporter," Barbour's "Quarterback,' and Tomlinson's "Ward Hill at Weston." 66 The most important gifts of the month were: from the American Exchange National Bank, "The New York Clearing House Association, 1854-1905," by W. J. Gilpin and H. E. Wallace, New York, 1904; from Rev. James Bassett, Shareh Ahade," a treatise on Arabic grammar with a Persian commentary, printed at Teheran in 1852, and a Persian almanac; from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 7 volumes and 6 pamphlets, catalogues of the Gallery; from the Deichmanske Bibliothek, Kristiania, 1 volume and 7 pamphlets, reports and catalogues of historical literature, etc.; from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries of Great Britain, of their publications, I volume and 26 pamphlets; from Rev. Kenneth S. Guthrie, 4 volumes and 5 pamphlets of his philosophical publications; from R. T. H. Halsey, a copy of "The Boston Port Bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist," New York, Grolier Club, 1904; from Ken Hoshino, a copy of "The Mission of Japan and the Russo-Japanese War," by Rev. Kota Hoshino, Yokohama, 1904; from Miss Jessie F. Hume, 8 volumes of New York newspapers of middle 19th century; from Mrs. Eleanor V. Hutton, a copy of the catalogue of the books of association in the library of Laurence and Eleanor Hutton, compiled by Miss M. E. Wood, and privately printed at New York, 1905; from A. S. Isaacs, 41 volumes of the Jewish Messenger; from the John Carter Brown Library, "The dedication of the library building;" from Prince Korab, four of his works; from Cyrus J. Lawrence, 8 volumes and 4 pamphlets, relating to archæology; from Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, 98 volumes and 6 pamphlets, works relating to the Jewish church service; from Hon. W. P. Letchworth, "Private charitable institutions in the City of New York," issued by the Charitable Institutions Division of the Department of Finance of the City, 1904; from J. J. Little & Co., Robert A. Chesebrough's "Christmas guests and other poems," New York, 1905; from Alexander Maitland, 185 volumes and 427 pamphlets, charitable reports, etc.; from the Methodist Library, 360 miscellaneous volumes and 2572 pamphlets; from Wilhelm Pettersen, "En ny slaegt, dramatisk digt," Minneapolis, 1895; from Hon. T. C. Platt, the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, vols. 1-2; from Mrs. Julia A. Pratt, a biography of Hon. Daniel Pratt, edited by Mrs. S. F. H. Tarrant, Richmond, 1904; from Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, a copy of his "Briefs on public questions,' New York, 1905; from Hon. George L. Rives, "Diario de las operaciones de la expedicion contra la Plaza de Panzacola concluida por las Armas de S. M. Católica baxo las órdenes del Mariscal de Campo D. Bernardo de Galvez," printed in Spain in 1781, with manuscript notes by Mr. Rives relative to the authorities to be consulted on the expedition; from Mrs. George R. W. Scott, a memorial of Rev. George Robert White Scott, Boston, 1905; from R. M. Smythe, a copy of his compilation "Obsolete American Securities and Corporations," New York, 1904; from George Peabody Wetmore, a copy of De B. Randolph Keim's "Sherman, a memorial in art, oratory and literature by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee with the aid of the Congress of the United States, prepared under the direction of Col. Thomas W. Symons;" from Clinton R. Woodruff, 6 volumes, 28 pamphlets and 13 periodicals, all relating to civic reform; and from Francis E. Woodruff, Part III. of "A branch of the Woodruff stock," Morristown, 1905. At the LENOx branch the exhibition of British Mezzotints loaned by Mr. J. Pier |