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LIST OF WORKS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RELATING

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GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, 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.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. JOHN S. BILLINGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

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During the month of November there were received at the Library, by purchase, 630 volumes and 172 pamphlets; by gift, 1,245 volumes and 4,712 pamphlets; and by exchange, 65 volumes and 86 pamphlets, making a total of 1,940 volumes and 4,970 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 4,070 volumes and 4,655 pamphlets, for which were written 6,560 cards, in addition to which 3,511 slips were written for, and 16, 167 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): Saintsbury's "History of Nineteenth Century Literature," Ulmann's Landmark History of New York," Villari's "Russia Under the Great Shadow"; (adult fiction): Thurston's "The Gambler," Wharton's "House of Mirth," McCutcheon's "Nedra"; (juvenile fiction): Barbour's "Four in Camp," Lang's "Crimson Fairy Book," Burnett's "Sarah Crewe."