B. WESTERMANN & CO., 812 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. (ESTABLISHED 1848.) FOREIGN offices aT LONDOn, leipzig, AND PARIS. Agents by appointment to many of the largest American and Foreign College and Public Libraries. SPECIAL TERMS FOR LARGE ORDERS. Terms on direct application for the supply of Foreign and American Books and Periodicals. Weekly shipments by the fleetest steamers from England, Germany, and France. Periodicals supplied at lower rates than mail copies and in better shape for binding. Rare Books and Sets of Serials procured at the lowest terms. Regular connections with Central and South America and all Oriental countries. Binding done here and abroad in every style. Auction Sales attended to. The Catalogues of Foreign Dealers-English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish-furnished on application. Monthly Bulletins of New Books issued regularly. With the help of a most complete Bibliographical Outfit in all languages and on all subjects, and the experience of many years in this particular line, estimates can be furnished promptly and information given on topics of interest to Librarians. TWO important handbooks for the Librarian now ready. Annual Literary Index, 1894, complements the "Annual American Catalogue" of books published in 1894, by indexing (1) articles in periodicals published in 1894; (2) essays and book-chapters in composite books of 1894; (3) authors of periodical articles and essays; (4) special bibliographies of 1894; (5) authors deceased in 1894, and, in its special features, supplements "Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1887-'92," and the "A. L. A. Index to General Literature." One octavo volume, cloth, $3.50. Office of THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, 54 DUANE STREET, P. O. Box 943, Annual The Annual American Catalogue for 1894 contains: (2) Full-title Record, with descriptive notes, in au- (3) Author-, title-, and subject-index to same in one alphabet. (4) Publishers' annual lists for 1894. The edition is limited, and to secure copies orders should be sent at once. The price is $3.50 half leather; $3.00 in sheets. We also supply the English Catalogue for 1894, price $1.50, paper; the Annual American and English Catalogues, 1894, can be had in one volume, half leather, $5.00. Office of THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, 54 DUANE STREET, NEW YORK. P. O. Box 943, NEW YORK. LONDON: ESTABLISHED 1872 30 WELLINGTON ST., STRAND. 76 RUE DE RENNES. LEIPZIG: GUSTAV E. STECHERT Purchasing Agent for Colleges & Libraries 810 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, (TWO DOORS ABOVE GRACE CHURCH) begs to call attention to his facilities for obtaining FOREIGN BOOKS and He employs no Commission Agents, but has his own offices and His experience enables him to give information at once about He receives weekly shipments from England, France and Germany, and MORE THAN 200 LIBRARIES FAVOR HIM WITH THEIR ORDERS. SPECIAL REFERENCES, . "Mr. Stechert has for years furnished this Library with most of its periodicals and European books, and has bought for us many thousand volumes. Mr. Stechert's success is due to his constant personal attention to the business, and the reasonable terms he is able to offer. I consider a New York agent far preferable to reliance on foreign agents alone." GEO. H. BAKER, Librarian of Columbia College, New York. "Seven years ago, in reorganizing the Columbia College library, I spent much time in trying to discover how to get our foreign books and periodicals with the least delay, trouble and expense. The result of the comparison of three methods, viz: ordering direct from foreign dealers, ordering through one agent in London, or ordering through one agent in New York showed us that it was to our advantage to give Mr. Stechert all our foreign orders, as he delivered in the library in a single package and with a single bill at as low cost as we were able with vastly greater trouble, to get a half dozen different packages in different bills from different places. In reorganizing the New York State Library, I opened the whole question anew, and the result of the comparison was the same as before, and we find that the library gets most for the time and money expended by taking advantage of Mr. Stechert's long experience, and the careful personal attention which he gives to our orders.' Melvil Dewey, Director of N. Y. State Library, Albany, N. Y. "Mr. G. E. Stechert of New York has served us with fidelity in procuring English, French and German books, both new and second hand and also periodicals. His terms are more reasonable than any others that have come to our notice, while he has always guarded our interests very carefully. We find it a great convenience to have one agency in New York, represented by branches in different European countries." Prof. ARTHUR H. PALMER, Librarian of Adelbert College, Cleveland, O. "Your methods and facilities for doing business, as I have examined them here as well as at the Leipzig and London ends, seem to me admirably progressive and thoroughly live. I deal with you because I judge it for the advantage of this library to do so. If I did not, I should not. Up to date I am unable to find a method which is, all things included, so economical of time and money as dealing through you." "" ERNEST C. RICHARDSON, Librarian of College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J. Our library committee speaks in the highest terms of your services. You have not only saved us many dollars, but have shown an intelligent appreciation of our wants for which we thank you. A. 8. COLLINS, Act. Librarian of Reynolds Library, Rochester, N. Y. GUSTAV E. STECHERT, LONDON. PARIS. LEIPZIG. NEW YORK. NEW YORK PUBLICATION OFFICE (Temporary), 54 Duane Street. LONDON: SOLD BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & Co., PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION, $5.00. MONTHLY NUMBERS, 50 cts. Price to Europe, or other countries in the Union, 20s. per annum ; single numbers, as. Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. HE above cut is a reduced photograph of the upper end of two card holders hinged together. These holders are 41⁄2 x 16 inches, full size. In the Bibliography column the work was first typewritten on thin paper, five to eight copies at once. One of these copies was pasted on cardboard, and by the use of a RUDOLPH CARD CUTTER, cut apart, each book separately; yet the cards are easily separated for the insertion of new books, each in its proper place. In the Biography column the printed matter is simply a leaf from an ordinary catalogue, pasted on cardboard and then treated in the same way. The card holders are hinged alike at both ends, producing an ENDLESS INDEX CHAIN which is revolved by a crank under the glass lid of the case, showing five pages at once. The size of Indexer Case is 34 inches long by 24 inches wide, 42 inches high. About the only practical difference in use between the RUDOLPH INDEXER and an Unabridged Dictionary is that you turn the Dictionary leaves by hand, while in the Indexer an endless succession of leaves is revolved by a crank. It will accommodate equally a library of 1000, 10,000 or 20,000 volumes. It takes the place of the old style card finding list, is accessible to the public, yet cannot be tampered with, and renders the publication of supplements unnecessary. If the problem of a World's Central Cataloguing Bureau is ever solved, it will be done by the use of the RUDOLPH INDEXER. Time saved over the card system, say three-fourths. Money saved over the card system, say two-thirds. Compare looking for a word and its meaning in an Unabridged Dictionary, and for the same word in the latest card index drawer, and you have about the difference between the old card system and the RUDOLPH INDEXER. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. THOMAS KANE & COMPANY, Sole Manufacturers, 137-139 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. THERE is no more important—as there is no more interesting- part of a librarian's work than that dealing with the relations of the library and the school. It seems not too much to say that this is the most vital branch of a library's administration. For the children are the library's most hopeful material; they are to be the readers of the future, and they are not yet beyond the power of influence nor are they resentful of direction. The library that has no connection with the local schools is neglecting its mission and ignoring its noblest opportunities. It is through this medium that the children may be reached most easily, most directly, and most effectively. Let the library once become the recognized depository of material for "compositions," "observation" items, etc., and it will soon take equal rank as a source of home reading. Let the children find that their needs have prompt attention, their questions considerate and kindly answers, and the librarian becomes a friend whose suggestions are willingly received and frequently followed. When the world of books is made an intimate No. 4 think less of the higher duties of their calling, and who deem co-operation with the library a tiresome work of supererogation. It is to the latter that the librarian must especially appeal the former are on the right side from the first. Personal intercourse, short talks at teachers' meetings, the extension of privileges to teachers, and kindred wiles must be resorted to, and generally will be successful. When by these means the teachers' enthusiasm and sympathy are obtained the rubicon is crossed, for in each school-room there is a library lieutenant, knowing the children and their needs as the busy librarian cannot do, and supplementing and extending the work of the library with the best and most lasting results. THE various phases of this important subject -the co-operation of teachers and librarians, the relations of the library and the schools, and the direction of children's reading are discussed in this number of the JOURNAL from various standpoints of personal experience. No one part of the every-day world of school-time and special feature is emphasized, unless it be the play-time, the education thus begun will inevi-importance of the work; but the selection of tably prepare the way for that later and more potent self-education that comes with the reading of good books. BUT in this work the aid of the teacher is essential to success, and the teacher is generally the unknown quantity in the problem. Indeed, the most difficult part of the librarian's work is to enlist the sympathy and co-operation of the teachers. It will not do to wait until their cooperation is offered. The first advances must come from the library, and in most cases it requires much more than a 'first step" to count. Teachers, as a rule, are not particularly responsive to the claims upon their time and attention that co-operation with the library entails. They are apt to feel that their work is arduous enough as it is, and that the use and circulation of library books among their scholars mean simply additional work and scant results. Those true teachers who recognize their responsibilities and accept them to the full, are far outnumbered by the many who care little and books for school work, methods of reference work among children, means of educating children in the use of the library, and ways in which the child's home reading may be influenced and guided, are considered and set forth. Such a symposium as this cannot fail to be helpful, full of interest and suggestion; above all, encouraging. It shows the high standards that may be attained by all who will, and it demonstrates again—if such demonstration be necessary how thoroughly the "missionary spirit" should be inherent in the best library work. UNDER the provision of the new public documents law, making the bureau of public documents a department of the Government Printing Office, the public printer has appointed Mr. Francis A. Crandall to be superintendent of public documents. This action terminates Mr. John G. Ames' long period of service as superintendent of this bureau; whether it will completely sever his connection with the department is uncertain. It is much to be regretted that Mr. Ames |