Published monthly by The New York Public Library, No. 40 Lafayette Place, New York City. Subscriptions may be sent to I. Ferris Lockwood, Business 3 5 4 4 91 48 6 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 January there were received at the Library, by purchase, 752 volumes and 460 pamphlets; by gift, 3,014 volumes and 3,494 pamphlets; and by exchange, 179 volumes and 6,191 pamphlets, making a total of 3,945 volumes and 5,343 pamphlets. There were catalogued 2,818 volumes and 3,888 pamphlets, for which were written 8,308 cards, in addition to which 3,493 slips were written for, and 13,777 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): Montgomery's "Leading Facts of American History," McMurry's "Elements of General Method," and Clement's "Handbook of Modern Japan"; (adult fiction): Thurston's "The Masquerader," Caine's "The Prodigal Son," and London's "The Sea Wolf"; (juvenile fiction): "Alcott's "Little Women," Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," and Dodgson's "Alice in Wonderland." |