During the month of April there were received at the Library, by purchase, 597 volumes and 567 pamphlets; by gift, 918 volumes and 2,219 pamphlets; and by exchange, 781 volumes and 91 pamphlets, making a total of 2,296 volumes and 2,877 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 3,297 volumes and 4,130 pamphlets, for which were written 9,639 cards, in addition to which 3,801 slips were written for, and 19,094 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): Okakura's "The Awakening of Japan," Asakawa's "Russo-Japanese Conflict," and Stephen's "English Literature in the 18th Century "; (adult fiction): Ward's "The Marriage of William Ashe," Dixon's "The Clansman," and Lane's "Nancy Stair "; (juvenile fiction): Andersen's "Fairy Tales," Barbour's "For the Honor of the School," and Wiggin's "The Story of Patsy."

The most important gifts of the month were: From the Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Hannover, the catalogue of its library; from Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, a copy of the "Harris-Ingram Experiment," by Charles E. Bolton, 1905; from P. F. Collier & Son, two copies of their "Self-indexing Annual, 1905;" from Hon. William A. Courtenay, I volume, 22 pamphlets, and 11 prints, being publications made by or for him; from Mrs. H. W. Hardon, 16 volumes of the Bering Sea fur seal arbitration proceedings (Paris, 1892); from F. W. Herzberger, St. Louis, 2 volumes of his poems, "Pilgrim Songs," Chicago, 1888, "Pilgerklänge,' Chicago, 1889; from the Madras Presidency, "The private diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, dubash to Joseph François Dupleix. . . Governor of Pondichery translated from the Tamil . . . by Sir J. Frederick Price," volume 1, Madras, 1904; from the Friedrich Krupp Aktiengesellschaft, their "Wohlfahrtseinrichungen der Gussstahlfabrik " (Essen, 1902), 3 volumes; from the Manchester Microscopical Society, 16 volumes of their annual reports and transactions; from Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, a copy of Selections from his poems, London, 1901; from the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, 4 volumes and 15 pamphlets, annual reports of the Company; from Hon. Morgan J. O'Brien, two copies of "Ireland's Story," by Charles Johnston and Carita Spencer, Boston, 1905; from the Observatoire de Nice, 3 volumes of its Annales; from Bishop Potter, 100 copies of his pamphlet The Drink Problem"; from Philip Schuyler, 280 Japanese prints relating to the present Russo-Japanese war; from Vinton A. Sears," Telephone Development," second edition, Boston, 1905; and from C. Ellis Stevens and Mrs. Ellen Stevens Melcher, a copy of Mr. Stevens' "Stevens Genealogy," New York, 1904. At the LENOX branch the exhibition of British Mezzotints loaned by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan was continued, as was also the printing exhibit of the Century Company, and the collection of autographs and prints relating to the French Revolution.

At ASTOR a collection of Hollyer's etched views of New York City was put on exhibition.

At TOMPKINS SQUARE plates from Audsley's "Ornamental Arts of Japan" were continued on exhibition, as were Racinet's costume plates (to the XVI. century) at 125TH STREET, plates from the Wilkie Gallery at CHATHAM SQUAre, Hollyer's etched views of New York City at 67th STREET, and Racinet's costume plates (after the XVI. century) at YORKVILLE. At RIVERSIDE a set of photographic views of the Island of Luzon was placed on exhibition, and at MoTT HAVEN "Masterpieces of Art at the Paris Exposition, 1900."

Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the Circulation branches were as follows: CHATHAM SQUARE, "May-day"; EAST BROADWAY, Famous men and women born in April, Washington Irving, Spring, Out-of-doors; Eldridge STREET, Famous men and women born in April, Shakespeare, Spring; BOND STREET, New books, Easter, Arbor Day, Joseph Jefferson; OTTENDORFER, Music, Arbor Day, Schiller; TOMPKINS SQUARE, Hans C. Andersen, Lewis and Clark centennial exposition, Schiller, Shakespeare, Nature books, Jules Verne; JACKSON SQUARE, Birds, Fishes, Easter, New books; EPIPHANY, Wild animals, Birds, Easter lilies; MUHLENBERG, Easter, Arbor Day, Garden books, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Daniel Webster, Civil war, Panama Canal, Grant,

Lincoln, Porto Rico, St. Louis exposition, Peru; 34TH STREET, Hans C. Andersen, Easter, Arbor day, Authors of the day; BRUCE, Standard books, New books, Family Pets; 59TH STREET, Hans C. Andersen; 67TH STREET, Rosa Bonheur, Arbor Day, Charles Dickens; RIVERSIDE, New books, Trees and flowers, Fairy Stories, Caricatures of Max Beerbohm; YORKVILLE, Shakespeare, Tales of adventure; ST. AGNES, Easter, Fairy tales, Birds, London and its government, Sound and music; AMSTERDAM AVENUE, Shakespeare, Hans C. Andersen, Grant, General Fitzhugh Lee, Easter, Lent, Japan; BLOOMINGDALE, Music, S. C. Woolsey, School work; AGUILAR, France, Russia, Greece, Elocution, Spain, Famous men and women born in April, Oregon exposition, Peru the land of the Incas, James Whitcomb Riley; HARLEM LIBRARY, New books, Base-ball; 125TH STREET, Arbor day, Birds, Spring; WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Books on thirty-two different subjects for public schools, Panoramic Colorado, Scotland, Berlin, California, Canada; TOTTENVILLE, Easter, Spring, Hans C. Andersen.

LIST OF WORKS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RELATING TO IRELAND;-IRISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, ETC.

PART III.