Librarians.

DAVIDSON, Mrs. Emma, of Peru, Ind., was elected state librarian of Indiana on Jan. 11, by the state legislature. She succeeds Miss M. E. Ahern, who has filled the position with admirable success for the past three years. Her election was entirely a matter of politics, the Republican victory of 1894 leading to a general "sweep' " in the various state offices. Mrs. Davidson is the widow of an old soldier, who fought in the 39th Indiana Regiment. Since her husband's death, 20 years ago, she has been a school teacher in Peru, Ind. She was a candidate for the office of state librarian in 1881, when she was defeated by another Republican candidate. Her closest rival in the present election was Miss Nancy Baker, of the Indianapolis Public Library, secretary of the Indiana Library Association. In all there were 72 candidates for the office, which pays a salary of

$1200 a year.

DRISCOLL, Miss Emma, has been elected librarian of the Spokane (Wash.) City L., succeeding Frank L. Price.

PUTNAM, Herbert, was on February 5 appointed librarian of the Boston Public Library. Mr. Putnam is a son of G. P. Putnam, the founder of the New York publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons, and was born in New York City in 1861. He entered Harvard University in 1879, was graduated in 1883, studied for a year subsequently at Columbia Law School and in the fall of 1884 went to Minneapolis. In 1885 he entered the Minnesota bar, and about that time became librarian of the Minneapolis Athenæum, a stock corporation library, with a fund yielding $10,000 a year for the purchase of books, but with a very meagre income for current expenses. Mr. Putnam organized the Minneapolis Public Library, as a free circulating library, with branches and delivery stations, under the control of and supported by the city authorities. By the issue of bonds and private subscription, and the income from current taxes, the library board bought a site and erected a building costing nearly $400,000, which ranks as one of the best equipped of American library buildings. The old Athenæum was merged in the new library and the aggregate income of the joint libraries has been from $50,000 to $75,000 During the construction of the building Mr. Putnam was engaged in purchasing books, going abroad for that purpose, and at the end of the seven years of his administration he had added about 50,000 volumes to the 12,000 originally possessed by the Athenæum, while the library had grown to be the fifth in the United States in point of circulation. In December, 1891, Mr. Putnam resigned his position and came to Boston, where he has since practised law. He married Miss Elizabeth Munroe, of Cambridge, where he resides. Mr. Putnam's appointment was a decided surprise. It is said that he was first mentioned in connection with the headship of the Boston Public

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Library in a letter to the trustees from State Librarian Tillinghast, dated Jan. 18. He was unanimously chosen at a fully attended trustees' meeting, and entered upon his new duties on February 11, at a salary of $5000 a year.

SCOTT, Dr. J. L., has been appointed state librarian of Wisconsin.

WINCHESTER, G: F., librarian of the Paterson (N. J.) Free Public Library, is ill with nervous prostration, the result of mental strainand overwork.

WIXSON, Mrs. Helen M., has been appointed state librarian of Colorado.

Cataloging and Classification.

continues its chronological index to historical The BOSTON P. L. BULLETIN for January fiction, covering Switzerland and the Netherlands, including Holland and Flanders. The special lists in this number relate to Roads, and to Corea, Japan, and China; as usual they are carefully classified and very full-bibliographic rather than library lists. There is also a list of books for exchange and sale by the trustees. The usual historical appendix consists of a letter from John Wiswall to George Rigby (1638); II views of the north end of Boston, and a panoramic view of Haymarket Square and its neighborhood - all with historical notes.

The DENVER P. L. has issued a small eightpage list of "books on science teaching, with some on science and scientific men." DES MOINES (Ia.) P. L. Catalog: first supplement, 1894. 138 p. l. O. cl.

Catalogs 4500 v., including all books not given in the catalog of 1892, excepting government documents. Follows style of former catalog, i. e., books are separated in three divisions - reference, general circulating, juvenile. Dictionary arrangement. Fiction is given under subject heading only; thus "Black, Wm." appears in proper alphabetic order, with only the reference "see fiction." "All books except fiction have a class number, which should be added to author and title when making out list of books. Fiction has no number and may be called for by author and title only." Short titles; full names are not generally given; dates, but no imprint. DREXEL INSTITUTE L., Philadelphia. Reference

lists, no. 2, January, 1895. Music. 8 p. An excellent list, classed under the general literature of the subject, its history, theory, fiction, etc.; the various branches- as dramatic music, vocal music, symphonies, instruments, pianoforte; and biographies, individual and collected, of musicians.

MONTCLAIR (N. J.) F. P. L. Finding-list of fiction. October, 1894. 26 p. O.

Printed by the linotype method; a title-a-line author and title list; no imprint; entries are generally made under well-known pseudonyms.

PRATT INSTITUTE(Brooklyn, N. Y.) F. L. Bulletin no. 10: Finding-list of works in the German language. January, 1895. 30 p. O.

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The PROVIDENCE (R. I.) P. L. has begun the publication of a Monthly bulletin, in which Mr. Foster again resumes his valuable "monthly reference-lists." This is welcome news librarians, to whom these lists, issued for some years in connection with the JOURNAL, were ever among the most useful of bibliographic aids. The Bulletin containing the lists is sold at the subscription price of 50 c. yearly. In the first (January) number the reference-lists cover Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Korean war, and Buddhism, being, in their present form, says Mr. Foster," continuation on an enlarged scale" of the original series. It is unnecessary to dilate in extenso on the usefulness and value of these lists. We extend them a hearty welcome and best wishes for a long life.

The SALEM (Mass.) P. L. BULLETIN for January devotes its usual "special reading list" to Ancient Greece; the literature of Grecian history, life, art, religion and literature is excellently selected and arranged.

The SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) LIBRARY BULLETIN for January has a short biographical sketch of Robert Louis Stevenson and a list of his books contained in the library; also a good "list of books relating to the American Revolution." FULL NAMES.

The following are supplied by Harvard College Library: Bardeen, C: W: (Teaching as a business for men);

Barrows, Walter Bradford (The English sparrow in North America);

Gerson, Felix Napoleon (Some verses); Hopkins, W: J: (Telephone lines and their properties);

Howe, S: H: (A brief memoir of the life of John F. Slater);

Mally, F: W: (Report on the boll worm of cotton);

McElroy, Karl (Thayer) Pomeroy (Canned vegetables);

Merrill, Earle Abbott (Reference-book of tables and formulas for electric street railway engineers);

Mielziner, Moses (Introduction to the Talmud);

Nichols, E: West (Analytic geometry); Peabody, Cecil Hobart, and Miller, E: Furber (Notes on steam-boilers);

Pickard, S: T: (Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier);

Rand, Addison Crittenden (The uses of compressed air);

Rankin, Francis Huntington (Hygiene of childhood);

Searles, W: H: (Field engineering);

Weaver, W: Dixon, editor (Standard tables for electric wiremen, by C: M. Davis);

Wedderburn, Alexander J: (A compilation of the pharmacy and drug laws of the several states and territories);

Wickes, T: H:, joint-author (The strike at Pullman).

Bibliografy.

ATKINSON, G: Francis. The study of the biology of ferns by the collection method. N. Y., Macmillan & Co., 1894. 12 + 134 p. 8°. A bibliography covers p. 129-132. BEVAN, Wilson Lloyd. Sir William Petty: a study in English economic literature. Publications of American Economic Association, v. 9, no. 4, 1894. 112 p. O.

Contains a short "bibliography of the printed works of Sir William Petty." BURSTALL, S. A. The education of girls in the United States. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1894. 12+204 p. sm. 8°. Contains an 8-p. bibliography. COBHAM, C. D. An attempt at a bibliography of Cyprus. 3d ed. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1894. 40 p. 8°, 3 fr.

FILON, A. Mérimée et ses amis; avec une bibliographie des oeuvres complètes de Mérimée, par le Vte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul. Paris, Hachette, 1894. 8°, 3.50 fr.

The FOLK-LORE SOCIETY have decided to expedite as far as possible the preparation of the English"Bibliography of folk-lore," which is being compiled by the society. It is to be one of the publications for 1897.

GEORGE, C., Schlagwort-Katalog. Verzeichniss der Bücher und Landkarten in sachlicher Anordnung. Band 2: 1888-92. Lieferung 7. Hannover, Cruse. 193-224 p. 8°, 1.30 m.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY of the literature of Gloucestershire is being prepared by F. A. Hyett and Rev. W. Bazeley, honorary secretary of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society, of England. The book is divided into publications relating to the whole county, those concerned with the Forest of Dean, those relatthose relating to the city of Bristol. ing to parishes and towns in the county, and An index

of authors, a list of local printers, and a bibliography of the Rowley controversy are to be added. The first volume will be ready early this year

HUBER, J. Ch. Bibliographie der klinischen Helminthologie. Heft 7. u. 8: Dracunculus Persarum Kämpfer, Filaria sanguinis hominis Lewis und Trematoden. München, J. F. Lehmann. 8°, 3.60 m.

JONES, M. Katherine. Bibliography of college, university, and social settlements. [Boston, 1894.] 19 p. 12°.

LEGRAND, E. Bibliographie hellénique ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés par des Grecs au XVIIe siècle. V. I et 2. Paris, Picard & fils., 1894. 14+514+532 p.

LYLY, J: Endymion, the man in the moon; ed. with notes, bibliography and biographical introd., by G. P. Baker. N. Y., Holt, 1894. c. 196+109 p. S. (English readings.) bds., 85 c.

SUDHOFF, K. Versuch einer Kritik der Echtheit der Paracelsischen Schriften. Band 1: Bibliographia Paracelsica. Besprechung der unter Theophrast von Hohenheims Namen 1527-1893 erschienenen Druckschriften. Berlin, G. Reimer. 722 p. 8°. 18 m.

THE UNIVERSITY of Leyden has undertaken the task of issuing a bibliographical catalog of all the works of its professors, from the date of its foundation, compiled by L: D. Petit, the university librarian, and to be published by S. C. Van Doesburgh. It will be issued in five volumes, each consisting of four or five parts, and will extend over about six years. The first part, which is just published, is devoted to the professors of the theological faculty, for the period between 1575 and 1619.

WILLEY, Arthur. Amphioxus and the ancestry of the vertebrates. N. Y., Macmillan & Co., 1894. 8°. (Columbia Univ. biological ser., no. 2.) net, $2.50.

Contains a 15-p. bibliography.

Anonyms and Pseudonyms.

Alyn Yates Keith, ps. of the wife of Governor Morris, of Connecticut, author of "A spinster's leaflets" and "A hilltop summer.". - Bost. Lit. World.

Chaperoned, published in Cassell's " Unknown library," is by Albert Ulmann. The second edition bears his name on the title-page.

A correction. Cushing, W: Initials and pseudonyms. [1st series.] p. 138, col. I. Investigator. Samuel Wheeler. The triangle. For Wheeler read Whelpley. - J: C. Rowell. Heclawa.-ps. of A. L. Artman Himmelwright, in "In the heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains story of the Carlin hunting party," pub., 1895, by Putnam. — A. A. J.

Ian Maclaren, ps. of Rev. J: Maclaren Watson, author of "Beside the bonnie brier bush," pub. by Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. He is minister of a Presbyterian church in Liverpool. - N. Y. Tribune, N. II.

Jane Smiley, author of the Christmas and Easter stories in Harper's Young People, is, according to C: E. L. Wingate in the Critic, the daughter of the late John Boyle O'Reilly.

Jean Kincaid, ps. of Mrs. Estelle M. H. Mer

a frequent newspaper correspondent.

Josephine Clifford, author of "Overland Tales," 1877; and "Another Juanita," 1894, is the nom de plume of Josephine Clifford McCrackin. J. C. ROWELL.

Julie K. Wetherill, ps. of Mrs. Marion Baker, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

M. E. Francis, ps. of Mrs. Francis Blundell, made up from her maiden name, M. E. Sweetman, She is and from her husband's Christian name. author of "In a North Country village," pub. by Little, Brown & Co. in 1893, and "The story of Dan," recently pub. by Houghton.

Magdalen Brooke. "Magdalen Brooke' who wrote The story of Eleanor Lambert,' in the Pseudonym Library is Miss Harriet M. Capes.

-The Bookman.

"" LES MISERABLES" has been a source of stock the latest unintentional play on the name is the jokes in many libraries for years, but perhaps asked for "Lay Mrs. Robbles" case of a man who entered a library recently and and he had it written out on a slip of paper, too. Reader. "I would like 'English men of letters,' please." Attendant. That is a set of about 40 volumes. What volume do you want? Reader (confidently). —"The most reliable

one!"

A FRESHMAN of one of the leading universities approached the delivery-desk of a reference library, handed the attendant a memorandum, and asked to be allowed to read the periodical named. His slip called for: "Ibid, vol. 10, page 128." Another applicant called for the U. S. Coast Survey Report for the State of New Jersey of the U. S. Fish Commission," and would take nothing else. - A. R.