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LONDON:

ESTABLISHED 1872

PARIS:

30 WELLINGTON ST., STRAND. 76 RUE DE RENNES.

LEIPZIG:

HOSPITAL STR. 10.

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 PERIODICALS at more economical rates THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN AMERICA OR EUROPE can offer, because:

He employs no Commission Agents, but has his own offices and clerks at London, Paris and Leipzig. He has open accounts with all the leading publishing houses in the world.

His experience enables him to give information at once about rare and scarce books.

He receives weekly shipments from England, France and Germany, and can thereby fill orders in quicker time.

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.

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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, zos. per annum ; single numbers, as.

Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.

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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,coo 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.
Patience saved over the card system, beyond computation.

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.

VOL. 20.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL

JUNE, 1895.

No. 6

American Library Association best versed in cataloging; he has obtained the help of experienced workers, like Mr. J. H. Hickox for the work of cataloging, and Miss A. R. Hasse for the care of the library which he is forming; and his methods are very promising of good result.

THE great result is accomplished — and the | taken great pains to consult members of the New York Public Library has now a legal existence. So magnificent an opportunity has rarely if ever presented itself in the whole history of libraries for a crowning achievement in architecture and in library administration, and as the new library has already two buildings, in the Astor and the Lenox Library, there is every opportunity as well as reason to take all the time that may be necessary in planning for a new building. It is to be hoped that the plan will be sufficiently comprehensive to include branch libraries throughout the city, and practically, perhaps, to take over the work of the Free Circulating Library. Simultaneously comes the opportunity for two other great library buildings in the gift of President Low to Columbia, and of an unknown donor to the University of New York; and provision is also to be made for library accommodation in connection with the third great college in New York, the City College, under the bill passed by the last legislature providing a new site for its home. We propose in an early number of the JOURNAL to commence a series of articles as to the ideal home for great public and university libraries, with the intention of bringing the experience of the profession to bear on the interesting problems which confront New York.

THE regret throughout the library profession at the failure of the administration to appoint as the new superintendent of public documents the one man, already in the service, who was best fitted by long experience and useful work to carry out the provisions of the bill, has found general expression, and it is unfortunate, at least, that an administration committed to civil service reform has in two cases, in which the library profession has had some interest, retired faithful and capable public servants to make place for new men - the cases of Mr. Sturtevant in the Treasury Department, and of Dr. Ames. This being said, it is but fair to recognize that the new appointee, Mr. Crandall, has taken hold of the important and difficult work before him in the most praiseworthy manner. He has wisely

His general plan is to make at Washington a library containing all public documents, and by cataloging these to furnish the best possible catalog of government issues. The Con gressional Library should, indeed, contain every such issue, but even this representative library seems to have failed to obtain everything, and it has often been noted that it is practically impossible to find any library in Washington which is completely comprehensive of government documents. Mr. Crandall's interesting plan of operations gives rise to the suggestion that the Congressional Library is the proper place for such a collection, and in view of the very crowded condition of the Government Printing House and the necessity of providing elsewhere for this special work, there would seem to be no reason why the Congressional Library, which for many years will have abundance of room, should not be made the headquarters of this division of the government printing office and the repository of the special collection-which might, indeed, be made by filling up the gaps in the Congressional Library - and also the temporary warehouse of the great mass of public documents which have yet to be sorted and properly distributed. The profession is to be congratulated on the appointment of one so much in sympathy with its aims and methods as Mr. Crandall seems to be, and it is some mitigation of the disappointment regarding the failure to promote Dr. Ames that he will remain in the government service in the Interior Department.

THE retirement of Mr. S. A. B. Abbott from active participation in the future work of the Boston Public Library has been the occasion of general recognition on the part of the Boston press of the valuable work done by him as

president of the board of trustees, particularly in carrying through the great work of providing for the magnificent new home of that institution. Whatever question there may be as to the desirability of subordinating the librarianship to the president or chairman of a board in a great library, or as to the specific methods of Mr. Abbott's detailed administration of the work for which he felt the responsibility, it should be heartily acknowledged that Boston and the whole library profession owe to him cordial recognition of the great work which he has carried through, and which, perhaps, would not have been carried through except for him. The library is now in such good hands that Mr. Abbott's retirement should be of less detriment to it than it might have been at an earlier period. It is to be hoped that his work will not fail to be crowned by good administration in the new building under the new librarian, as well as under Mr. Abbott's successor as president of the board.

Communications.

THE ANNUAL LITERARY INDEX.

WITH the reappearance of the Annual Literary Index two important suggestions come strongly to mind:

First: Why cannot librarians be informed by the editor from time to time, through the columns of the LIBRARY JOURNAL, of the new periodicals that are to be included in the next issue of the Index? If this were done it would enable those of us who wish to add to our libraries all indexed volumes, to do so either by subscription or by buying complete sets, and have them in readiness for our readers when the Index makes its appearance. I have no doubt many could be found who would esteem it a great privilege to receive this information in the manner suggested.

Second: I am sure many libraries have taken and are now taking periodicals which they would not have subscribed for but for the fact that they are indexed in Poole and its continuations. In justice to such libraries the indexing of these periodicals ought not to be dropped without the best of reasons. Not only ought the editor of the Index to continue the indexing of those just referred to, but his policy should be to go back and index the gaps which already exist in many important sets.

It seems to me, if these two suggestions could be carried out, that it would be for the mutual advantage of the editor and of the libraries, and I believe that there would be no difficulty in finding enough libraries who are interested in the matter to co-operate in the work.

PUBLIC LIBRARY, Jersey City, N. J.

GEORGE WATSON Cole.

I WOULD reply briefly to Mr. Cole's suggestions that (1) additions to the list of periodicals have rarely been made except at near the end of the year, the indexing for the year being then done; and that (2) periodicals once included have not been dropped except for what seemed "the best of reasons." The cases of such dropping are very few, and those were apparently unavoidable. "To go back and index the gaps which already exist in many important sets" is a work undertaken in connection with each 5-year supplement to Poole, but efforts in that direction are not deemed advisable in the Annual. W. I. FLETCHER. COLLEGE LIBRARY,

Amherst, Mass.

CONCERNING LIBRARY CENSORSHIP.

YOUR Comments on "a novel principle in library censorship" are based, so far as this library is concerned, on a misstatement of facts in our local press.

The arrest of Oscar Wilde raised a hue and

cry against him, which found voice in an edi torial in one of our dailies that condemned his writings as immoral in their teaching and tendencies. There was at the same time an unhealthy stimulus given to the call for his books, most of which had remained on the shelves untouched for years. In response to the demand of reporters, eager for a sensation, as to what I was going to do, I said that the books would be, or had been, withdrawn from circulation. I think one of the papers stated correctly that I had withdrawn the books till I could determine from personal examination whether they were morally objectionable. Another wrote up his item in the most approved sensational style, with scare-lines of the largest type. The article was incorrect and misleading throughout. The head-lines announced that there was "a perfect avalanche of demands for his works," which was not true; and the statements in the body of the article were equally incorrect, especially the remarks attributed to me. I merely said that the books had been withdrawn. I did not see the article for some days after its publication, and, for obvious reasons, did not think correction advis

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