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Superintendent, No. 40 Lafayette Place, New York. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894.

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.

During the month of February there were received at the Library, by purchase, 541 volumes and 615 pamphlets; by gift, 985 volumes and 2,823 pamphlets; and by exchange, 90 volumes and 5,861 pamphlets, making a total of 1,616 volumes and 9,299 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 2,617 volumes and 3,053 pamphlets, for which were written 7,937 cards, in addition to which 3,362 slips were written for, and 14,695 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): Hearn's “Japan, an Attempt at an Interpretation," Guerber's "Stories of the Opera," and Palmer's "With Kuroki in Manchuria"; (adult fiction): Thurston's "The Masquerader," Kelly's "Little Citizens," and Stevenson's "Marathon Mystery"; (juvenile fiction): "Alcott's "Little Women," Tomlinson's "Winning His 'W'," and Douglas's "Little Girl in Old New York."