Paris: 0. Cuyer (Edouard). La mimique. Doin, 1902. 2 p.l., 366 p. illus. 12°. (Bibliothèque Internationale de Psychologie Expéri mentale.) Douay (Marc). *Des garanties de la liberté individuelle. Paris: A. Rousseau, 1905. 2 p.l., 164 p., 1 l. 4°. (Université de Paris. Faculté de Droit.) Levy (Louis-Germain). La métaphysique de Maimonide. Dijon: Imp. Barbier-Marilier, 1905. 4 p.l., 149 p., 1 l. 4°. Schiff Collection. Sidgwick (Henry). Lectures on the philosophy of Kant and other philosophical lectures and essays. London: Macmillan & Co., I p.l., x, 475 p. 8°. Thomas (Northcote W.) Crystal gazing. Its history and practice, with a discussion of the evidence for telepathic scrying. With an introduction by A. Lang. London: A. Moring, 1905. 2 p.1., vii-xlvii, 162 p., 3 pl. 12°. Wagner (Charles). Justice. Translated from the French by M. L. Hendee. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. ix, 1 l., 227 p. 12°. RELIGION. Betson (Thomas). A ryght profytable treatyse compendiously drawen out of many and dyvers wrytynges of Holy men, by Thomas Betson. Printed in Caxton's house by Wynkyn de Worde about 1500. Cambridge: The Univ. Press, 1905. 19 1., 2 pl. nar. 4°. Bible.-O.T..: Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus. Liber Iesu filii Sirach, sive: Ecclesiasticus Hebraice. Secundum codices nuper repertos vocalibus, adornatus addita versione Latina cum glossario Hebraico-Latino. Edidit Norbertus Peters. Friburgi Brisgovia: Sumptibus Herder, 1905. xvi, 163 p. 8°. Monceaux (Paul). Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne depuis les origines jusqu'à l'invasion arabe. Paris: E. Leroux, 1901-2. 2 v. 4°. (France. Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des Beaux-arts. Description de l'Afrique du nord.) T. 1, Tertullien et les origines; T. 2, Saint Cyprien et son temps. Nicolas (A. L. M.) Seyyed Ali Mohammed dit le Bâb... Histoire. Paris: Dujarric & Cie., 1905. 2 p.l., 458 p., I port. 12°. (Les religions des peuples civilisés.) Schiff Collection. Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, begründet von J. J. Herzog .. 3. ed. Bd. 16. Leipzig, 1905. 4. Steindorff(Georg). The religion of the ancient Egyptians. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. xi, 178 p. 8°. (American lectures on the history of religions. ser. 5.) Sanday (William). The criticism of the Fourth Gospel. Eight lectures on the Morse foundation, delivered in the Union Seminary, New York, in Oct. and Nov. 1904. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905. xiv, 11., 268 p. 8°. (The Morse lectures. Published monthly by The New York Public Library, No. 40 Lafayette Place, New York City. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894. MADISON TO MONROE ON WEST INDIES SLAVERY IN 1816 459-462 463 464-465 466-513 514-519 520 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." |