On recommendation of the Director the Board of Trustees voted at its regular meeting held December 13, to keep the Astor branch open until 9 P. M. on week days, to extend the hours of six reading rooms in circulation branches from 9 to 10 P. M., and to open twelve reading rooms in circulation branches on Sunday afternoons and evenings-these changes to go into effect in January next.

As it will be difficult, if not impossible, at the Astor branch in the evening to find books not on the main floor, owing to lack of light on the shelves, it will be best for readers to give notice during the day as to what books they desire for evening use, that these books may be found and made ready for their use. This notification may be given by filling out order slips in the usual way or by postal card or letter.

The Board also approved the recommendation to keep open until 10 P. M. reading rooms in the Rivington Street, Ottendorfer, Tompkins Square, Yorkville, Amsterdam Avenue, and Tremont branches; and to open on Sunday afternoons. from 2 to 6 o'clock reading rooms in the Chatham Square, Rivington Street, Ottendorfer, Tompkins Square, Jackson Square, Yorkville, 96th Street, Bloomingdale, Aguilar, Harlem Library, and Mott Haven branches.

One of the important gifts of the month came from Mrs. Henry Draper, 61 volumes, 97 pamphlets, 8 photographs, 13 prints, I map; included in this lot was a collection of 24 volumes relating to witchcraft, alchemy, etc., ranging in date from Lambertus Danaeus' "Dialogue of Witches" (1575) to the "Short enquiry concerning the hermetic art, addressed to the studious by a lover of Philalethes " (1714); John Webster's "Displaying of supposed witchcraft" (1677) is a copy of interest aside from its importance as an early attack on current opinions about witches, being a large paper copy from the Ashburnham library; other titles worthy of mention are William Perkins' " Discourse of the damned art of witchcraft" (1610), John Gaule's "Select cases of conscience touching witches and witchcraft" (1646), Glauber's "New philosophical furnaces" (1615), and the 1689 edition of his Works, Glanvil's "Vanity of dogmatizing" (1662), Beecher's "Magnalia naturæ" (1680), the "Theologia mystica" (1633), Bekker's "World bewitched" (1695), and Beaumont's "Historical, physiological, and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices" (1705).

From the Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura of Helsingfors, Finland, was received a large and interesting collection of its publications, 83 pieces in number, making a valuable addition to our material on the history, language, and literature of Finland.

Other noteworthy gifts came: From the American Railway Master Mechanics Association, 4 volumes, reports of proceedings of conventions; from John Bigelow, 8 volumes, being the record of indemnities paid by France for damages to the French proprietors in the Island of Santo Domingo during the French Revolution, with their names, etc., 1827-1833, and 35 copies of "Lest we forget, Gladstone, Morley and the Confederate loan of 1863, a rectification by John Bigelow," New York, 1905; from the "Chief" Publishing Co., copies for each branch of their instructions for entering the Customs service, for applicants for firemen, for lettercarriers, for patrolmen; from Cleveland H. Dodge, 28 volumes and 10 pamphlets;

from the Educational League, 29 volumes and 93 pamphlets, chiefly Russian periodicals; from the Inner Temple Library, London, its "Register of burials at the Temple Church, 1628-1853, with an introduction by Rev. H. G. Woods," London, 1905; from the Königliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, the volume issued in commemoration of its bi-centennial; from the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a copy of "Mexico, its social evolution . . . monumental inventory summing up in masterly expositions the great progress of the nation in the 19th century," edited by J. Ballesca, Mexico, 1905, 3 large folio volumes; from the Colonial Secretary of Newfoundland, 5 volumes of the Journal of the Legislative Council; from the Order of Scottish Clans, 18 pamphlets, reports of officers, minutes of annual conventions, etc.; from the Society of the Iconophiles, 16 prints, lithographs of New York by Joseph Pennell, and aquatints by Mielatz; from Thomas D. Sugden, a manuscript entitled "Remarks on wood-engraving by One o' Them,'" comprising his recollections of American wood-engraving and his reflections on the art, and including several plates of interest, such as Anderson plates after Bewick, impressions from Anderson blocks, and a very early original drawing by the late Michael Angelo Woolf made about 1844; from Howard Townsend, a holograph letter from Lord Jeffrey, of the Edinburgh Review, written at New York, 9 October, 1813, to President Monroe, giving his reasons why he should not be held as a prisoner of war; and from J. Alden Weir, 45 of his etchings

On the occasion of the centenary of Schiller's death, an effort was made to obtain the " 'Festschriften," programmes, and newspaper accounts of the American celebrations; thus far over 200 newspapers and about 100 programmes, etc., have been received from 78 cities out of a total of 112 in which the centenary was observed.

Other additions of German-American interest are: from T. A. Brühl, Cincinnati, various works by his late father, Dr. Gustav Brühl; from Richard Müller, New York, souvenirs of the visit of Prince Henry in 1902; from Hugo Münch, the "Gesammelte Schriften" of his late father Friedrich Münch, St. Louis, 1902; from H. A. Rattermann, 4 pieces, including his "Adolph Zipperlen, deutschamerikanischer Arzt, Zoologe, Humorist und Reiseschriftsteller," Cincinnati, 1905; from Rev. John Rothensteiner of Fredericktown, Mo., his "Indiansommer, neue Lieder und Gedichte," St. Louis, 1905, and 17 other publications.

At the LENOX branch the exhibition of Works by Adolf von Menzel was continued. The John Paul Jones exhibit was replaced on November 26, 1905, by a collection of etchings, dry points, and one line engraving by J. Alden Weir, to which were added three etchings by the late John H. Twachtman. A small selection of the material used in the Jones exhibition was continued on view.

At the ASTOR branch the plates from "Moderne Ziermotive" and "Moderne Kunstschmiedearbeiten" were replaced on November 28th by plates from Souslow's "Monuments de l'ancienne Architecture russe," illustrating Russian ecclesiastical architecture and decoration, and a selection of plates from the photographic fac simile (Paris, 1900) by E. Thézard, fils, of "The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam "(London, 1778).

Picture bulletins and temporary collections of books on special shelves at the

Circulation branches were as follows: CHATHAM SQUARE, Prominent magazine editors; EAST BROADWAY, Some animals of the Zoological Garden at Bronx Park, German composers; BOND STREET, Patriotic songs of America, Across New England States, English American and Scotch ballads; OTTENDORFER, Operas, George Eliot; TOMPKINS SQUARE, Books on art, Birthdays of celebrated men and women, November, Political conditions in New York City, Tuberculosis; JACKSON SQUARE, Norway and Sweden; BRUCE, Mother plays, Art of printing, Dutch boys and girls; 59TH STREET, Outlines of development of art, Renaissance; 67TH STREET, Pilgrim exiles, cover designs of new books; RIVERSIDE, Foreign children, Automobiles, Music, Pilgrims and Puritans; ST. AGNES, Public lectures; AMSTERDAM AVENUE, Autumn leaves, William Cullen Bryant, Louisa M. Alcott, English and American battleships, Portraits of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Admiral Evans; 96TH STREET, Sea stories; BLOOMINGDALE, Foreign children, Dutch life, Indians of America, Famous paintings, Lecture lists, School lists; AGUILAR, Electricity and Magnetism, Japan, Commercial and Industrial Africa, Panama Canal, Legends of the Holy Grail, Argentine Republic, Life in Maine woods; HARLEM, Tyrol, Territorial expansion of the United States; 135TH STREET, College stories, Fairy tales, Charles Dickens; MOTT HAVEN, Asia, Norway.

In addition there were bulletins on Thanksgiving Day at twenty-one branches, on New Books at five branches, on November Birthdays at two branches, on Animals at two branches, and on the Hudson River at two branches.

There was an exhibition of cord-making and of costumes at the Tremont branch.

LIST OF WORKS IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RELATING TO WOMAN.

This list does not include publications of women's clubs, women's colleges, charities and mission organizations, etc. Magazine articles have been noted only when their value or importance seemed to Reference must also be made to the topics suggested on the guide card in the index catalogue, to Poole's Index, and to the bibliographies noted below.