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. During the month of October there were received at the Library, by purchase, 705 volumes and 221 pamphlets; by gift, 903 volumes and 1,710 pamphlets; and by exchange, 104 volumes and 31,632 pamphlets, making a total of 1,712 volumes and 33,563 pamphlets. There were catalogued 3,742 volumes and 3,566 pamphlets, for which were written 7,338 cards, in addition to which 2,692 slips were written for, and 14,463 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): Longfellow's Poems, Roosevelt's "Oliver Cromwell," Saintsbury's "History of Nineteenth Century Literature"; (adult fiction): Ward's "Marriage of William Ashe," Thurston's "The Gambler," Caine's "The Prodigal Son "; (juvenile fiction): Lang's "Red Fairy Book," Barbour's "Four in Camp," Dodge's "Hans Brinker." The most important gifts of the month were: from Charles Francis Adams, jr., a volume, containing two addresses before the Weymouth Historical Society, publication no. 3 of the Society; from the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Votes and Proceedings for 1905; from Lindon W. Bates, a copy of his "Panama Canal System and Projects of Lindon W. Bates," 1905; from the Königliche Bibliothek, Berlin, part 3, volume 13, of the "HandschriftenVerzeichnisse"; from the Boone and Crockett Club, "American Big-Game Hunting, the Book of the Boone & Crockett Club," 1901, "Hunting in Many Lands," 1895, and "Preservation of the Wild Animals of North America," by H. F. Osborn, 1904; from Mrs. Henry Draper, 38 volumes and 5 pamphlets, including 5 volumes of "Engravings and Woodcuts by old masters, reproduced in facsimile under the direction of Dr. F. Lippmann," London, 1899-1900; from Mrs. M. F. Duer, 117 volumes and 23 pamphlets, including "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion;" from J. Scott Hartley, 17 photographs of his work in sculpture; from the Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, 4 volumes and 14 pamphlets, including reprints of Barton's "Materia Medica," 1798, Peter Smith's "Indian Doctor's Dispensatory," 1812, Schöpf's "Materia Medica Americana,"1787, and Manasseh Cutler's "Vegetable Productions," 1785; from the Board of Lady Managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a copy of its report, June, 1905; from the Lynn Historical Society, 2 volumes of its Register; from William Mendelson, 2 volumes, the "Twentieth Century Latin Book," by Alexis E. Senftner, New York, 1903, and "2500 Problèmes d'Arithmétique," by V. Arnoux, Paris; from Clement B. Newbold, one of the fifty copies printed of the "Catalogue of the Anna Dike Scott Collection of Old Laces," Boston, 1905; from Nürnberg, 12 pamphlets relating to the Exposition of 1906; from the Philologikos Syllogos Parnassos, 7 volumes and 2 pamphlets, publications of the society; from Philip Schuyler, 9 volumes, 32 pamphlets, and 38 prints, all Japanese publications relating to the Russo-Japanese War; from the Insurance Commissioner of Tennessee, 8 volumes of reports; from the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, the official report of the congress, 1904; from Stephen H. Wakeman, a copy of "Twenty days of Julian and Little Bunny," a diary by Nathaniel Hawthorne (now first printed from the original manuscript), one of thirty copies printed for S. Wakeman, 1904; from Joseph Wright, a copy of the last volume of the "English Dialect Dictionary," edited by J. Wright, and from 6 cities of The Netherlands, 22 volumes of city reports. At the LENOX branch the exhibition of works by Adolf von Menzel was continued, as was also the John Paul Jones exhibition. At the ASTOR branch the exhibit illustrating ornamental work and general decorative designing, with plates from "Moderne Ziermotive für Kunst und Gewerbe" and from Brechemacher's "Moderne Kunstschmiedearbeiten." At the RIVERSIDE branch an exhibition of plates representing Masterpieces of Art at the Paris Exposition of 1900 was opened on October 10th; at MOTT HAVEN, photographic views of the Island of Luzon, on October 10th, and at 125TH STREET, European views and views of architecture and sculpture, on October 23d. Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the Circulation branches were as follows: CHATHAM SQUARE, George MacDonald, List of books on politics; EAST BROADWAY, Theodore Roosevelt, Verdi, Wagner, German composers, Wordsworth, United States politics; RIVINGTON STREET, Famous men and women born in October; BOND STREET, Wonders of New York, Our familiar songs, Niagara Falls, Irish music; OTTENDORFER, Mayflower; TOMPKINS SQUARE, Art history illustrations, Some of nature's work; JACKSON SQUARE, Norway and Sweden, California; EPIPHANY, English authors; MUHLENBERG, Paintings and painters, Magnetism; 34TH STREET, American history, Indians of America; RIVERSIDE, Books on music, Automobile; YORKVILLE, Music, Civics; WEBSTER, Birds, Musical events; ST. AGNES, Lectures at Museum of Natural History, Lectures at Public School No. 166: AMSTERDAM AVE., October birthdays of famous men and famous events; 96TH STREET, Our own city, Historic Hudson, North Africa, Oregon and development of petroleum industry; BLOOMINGDALE, Supplementary reading for High School; 125TH STREET, Autumn; 135TH STREET, Stories of animals, Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Foreign children; MOTT HAVEN, Author list, Eastern Asia, Public lectures; TOTTENVILLE, Japan and Russia, Tales of fairy land, United States Geography, Zoology. In addition there were bulletins on Harvest time at two branches, on Sir Henry Irving at five branches, on Thanksgiving Day at three branches, on new books at five branches, on Christopher Columbus at two branches, on Mary Mapes Dodge åt two branches, on Japan at two branches, and on school stories at two branches. |