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ESTABLISHED 1872 LONDON: 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. 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LAST ACQUISITION: The Library of the late Sir Charles Thomas Newton, Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, and Chief Editor of the Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, author of "Discoveries at Halicarnassus," etc., etc. This splendid library is one of the most complete collections of books on classical archæology ever offered for sale. We intend to sell it in one lot. Catalogue in preparation. Buyers are requested to apply. LAST CATALOGUES OF SECOND-HAND BOOKS PUBLISHED: No. 305, 311, 312, 317, 318, 325. Library of Prof. W. von Lexer. (Germanische Sprachen und deutsche Literatur, 7200 items.) 319, 322, 323. 328, 329, 338. Library of Prof. Wilhelm Lübke. (Archeology, Fine Arts, Industrial Arts, 5000 items.) Political Economy (4800 items). 330. Library of Prof. F. Miklosich. (Historia et litteratura Slavorum.) 331. Reference Books, Library Editions, Periodicals and Publications of Learned Societies (1800 items). 335. History of the Catholic Church, with Appendices on the Reformation and the Jesuits. 336. 337. 64 339. Library of Mr. Lucas, Architect of the Cathedral of Mayence. (Christian Art.) The Byzantine Empire, Modern Greece, Turkey, Hungary (1200 items). 340. Library of Prof. O. Feistmantel, of the Indian Survey. (British India and the East Indian Archipelago; with Appendix on the Gypsies, 1300 items.) 341. Lepidopterology.-342. Geology.-343. Numismatics. 344, 345. Library of Fr. von Bodenstedt. Part I. Literature and History of Russia. Part II. Shakespeare and his time. 346. Botany. VOL. 20. THE LIBRARY JOURNAL MARCH, 1895. THE finest piece of co-operation in library history is that which has been announced within the month in the proposed consolidation of the library foundations of New York City. The Astor Library, the Lenox Library and the Tilden Trust were each sufficient, in almost any other city than metropolitan New York, to provide adequately for a great library, and it is most creditable to the recent administration of the Lenox Library that this, as well as the Astor Library, has, within its limitations, been put freely at the service of the public. But no one of these individually, with those limiting conditions, could be adequate in New York, while the consolidation of all into the "New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations," as it is ingeniously proposed to call the new institution, brings everything together into a happy whole. New York will now fairly rival Boston and Chicago as a library city, and we may fairly expect that Brooklyn will take the hint and begin' a like consolidation of its library enterprises. Such a movement has, indeed, been considered in Brooklyn, and one seems also under way in Philadelphia, where the consolidation of the Pepper Free Library with the libraries of the board of education has led to definite plans for a general consolidation of libraries, so that the spirit of co-operation for which the American Library Association has stood, through so many years, is now bearing most noble fruit. With the several libraries of the New York Free Circulating Library as branches, it is scarcely possible to conceive of a finer system than this new plan for New York outlines, and the greatest credit that is possible within words should be given to the trustees of the several bodies, who have voted to combine the individualities of their several institutions to this grand consummation. ANOTHER example of proposed co-operation on a large scale is outlined in the report of the Harvard University committee on the index No. 3 ing of scientific books, and the correspondence from the Royal Society, already given in Science, which we reprint elsewhere. There is nothing more wasteful in the whole range of duplication than incomplete and inadequate indexing, where practically complete and adequate work is possible. The Royal Society, which is officially and in practice the leading organization of the scientific world, renders a great service to science and to bibliography in initiating this undertaking, and it is scarcely necessary to appeal to American librarians on their side to do everything possible to promote the success of this admirable plan. We heartily second the appeal to publishers to do everything in their power to make the enterprise possible. It should not be forgotten that the new Government Publications law distributes to members of Congress a large stock of Government publications hitherto uselessly on storage. These, it is understood, will not come under the charge of the new superintendent of documents, and therefore librarians should be on the alert to make sure that through their senators or representatives they get such documents as may be of service to them. If this stock, as it reaches the hands of congressmen, is not promptly called for by those who are likely to use it, it will doubtless find its way to the usual tomb of Government publications- the second-hand dealer or the junkshop - and it is better that librarians, therefore, should ask for everything that they might possibly want, in the hope of getting what they do want and exchanging the remainder, than it is to take the chance of losing publications which will be of great value in the right place and of no earthly value in the wrong place. WHILE it is not improper that books in a state library should be to a certain extent at the service of the citizens of the capital city, and that a state library should thus become in a measure |