, 1875-11-14
The PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Arrival Of a Valuable Consign.
ment of New Books.
Excellent Collection of French Works..
German and Italian Pub1ica-
tiOns.

be curiosity, but it is quietly growing "a
rapidly as circumstances will permit, and now
contains o good number Of volumes. The as
sortuent too. taken altogether. ia very fair, and
supplies something for every taste. The lemairo
Latin classics IN 142 volumes, and correspond
ing sol Of Greek authors. furnish very good
supply Of the classics for few years until what
may be called the working pert OF the library ia
filled. Tie nun.ber Of applicants for books n
unue the sane aud even increases somewhat
asd Saturdays especially thu ROOMS are full a.
day with loug Inca OF boox-bor1owers. New IN
tereA!. boauyer, will be created when it is
known that
LARGE ACCESSION
has just been made to the Public Library in the
shape OF four CAGES ct English. Geruan, French.
aud Italiaa works. The greater part Of these
works were ordered over year ago, and should
have been here long before. but through various
accidents aud delays only reached this city last
week. Tbs .nRjouty Of the WORKS are Of course
standard editions. attention having been paid
principally to getting the largest amount OF read
ing for the least amount OF money. but not
few hnely illustrated works have
crept in, espec1ally il The collected works oi
tie standard aushofs. 1bls przctics Of buying
TIC "Ao1o "o'As VI ~ 7u.noi 10 soou oac' 'ot
ces1aes tne 1act 1na1 SEE u III III aueooT p's
ductioas can be b-ushs t,gethei cheaper than
each Of the volumes conpoalng II cAn be pur-
chased. when Of different editions, there hui,-
dreds Of persons who, though they may not
wish to wage through all that anY SINGLE author
ever wrote. will desire at Que time or another to
refer to dtftt:ods pasta or to his less Known
productions, which alo geDhTaI'y not eaeity pio-
curaptc, aud she,s wishes are as We euttled to
rcatlricat1on as .hose of the ortiluasy cass OF
1ealefb, Mho are satisfied with reading what is
commonly called the - standard portions Of an
author.
THE ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH BOOKS
embraces nearly 1000 volumes, aud includes the
writings Of the most populsr no:ellsts Of the
present time such as Dumas, in $50 volumes,
George Sand. Jules Vetre Ausset. About. Cner-
bu.iez, Emie De Girsr1;n, Mrz1lnee. Erckmann.
Chatrinn, and others. The classic dTamatluts
C1rue1le Moi;ere, llustra:ed with the celo-
prated engrayipgs Of Moreau the Younger and
accompanied BY commentaries, aud kaclne, are
there Volta1re also. III tbirtseu ;iugh ocsaEos,
Of over SUO pages eaca, alii illusErateu With en-
cravings afte- Ntoreau j; the works OF LANAI! inc,
ia for.y yoiunes elegantly rtioted af Rousseau,
10 19 .iicx o:,asos anu costing uea;ly ,s10o, AID
Of Chaleau u iand in IL hne tones, beautifully j.
.ruecl with charming stael ensravinys by
d,a:io. .,u,sbed hytur a,tista The complete
WORTH ct B.lzac in il volumes, Saint Pitrre ia
u octavoH, aud OF Rsbalais, Descartes, Mon
taigue Atichelet, Cousin, Thiers Thlerrv. Vile
u1aln and others, are also Included. Nor usu;t
the magnificent 4orxs OF that emiuent Orianta!
sch.!ar. Bs.,ruou', be forgotten. Besides these.
and hundreds Of O'h hers loo numerous to uiatl-
ton, there IRE TWO c,egant volumes bs Saint
Eeure, cntltled '.lhe Gallery of Celebrated
Wutuen" and containing, among Others. hne
steel eneravipgs Of Iada1ue de 6tael, MADAME
Dacler. Ma1,e Stuart. and MADAME de- Main
tenon.
THE GEnMAv DEPARTMENT
il not nearly so large. but corts1ns good MINI
Ter OF tho bes: w1i=ss. comprising about 3sN
volumes. Tno1o are also sets OF Der Ausiand :"
fss ns s1sD
periodicals, which comprise some 100 OF l25
yoInmes. snd which apparently are the most
useless books, in the present condition of the
Library, vl1aci, could be parrhaaei As book4
Of reference they are valuable, tut taers are
othe; books wuicn might ye1T ud7ansageoueiy
huve been substituted
TIE ITALIAN COLLECTION
is the smallest DAME. Petrarch. Tasso Mach
,avel Quicciardin1. and GuerrAzde. are the
PRINCIPAL authors whose worss have teeu pur
chased. Tn=re is alsoia pleasantly written CON-
pendium Of Italian literature by Anlbrosoli, the
literary thlstory Of ItA1r by Lomoardl,-a con-
t:nuatiou OF T4raboschia mora es!ebEssed
80. and two or th1ee volumes BY Geu. Carl
naldi. besides ubout 100 other miscellaneous
works. The editions of Taaso and Petrarch es~
pec,ally contain a Dumpez OF no.es and aunota-
tlons winch specially adapt them to peraons who
are aludylng the language. Among the 6ue and
valuable works an Italian edition Of Forceli1ni's
excellent Latin Lexicon should not be passed
over.
Last and perhaps not least in literary value,
thoueh by no means least in appearance, is
TIE ENGLISH pcRr:ok
Of the purchaBe, comprising perhaps 2Do or $50
volumes. A1uoue these il 4 copy OF the British
rhentre. .st,m.risius the bad: plays in the En-
vlish language" IN 25 volumes = t1ne copy in
half calf Of The State,trials from Henri II. to
tha and Of the re1eu OF George w.. IN "a yo'-,
,1mcs . Tbs B,okseller." il about 80 volumes.
p.rrys H.story of the Church Of En-
Gland The famous letters cf Horace
Waluoie 10 large volumea, so much
PRAISED and 30 little read; 4 splendidly
;,insrrstad volume .sSolsr Physics" By Lock
var. dictionary of Bects hc.oses. and eccle-
siastlcal parties; Buca's Aucient Pottery.
work specially attrsctv ve when the Weakness for
od china ia broa ling out Realu BuIwer'a 1hfe
~ yisconn. Pal1as,ston aud line folio volume
m the hackueyel subject OF Rome, but excel
Ientiv i,Mstratad by wood engravlngs by the
hAat French English. aud Italian artlsts with
an iut1oduotiou by W. W. Story.
Nor eould the genial bbiiophlle, the Librarian
M poole. allow ths opportunity to pass
- anrich his own goodIy private COL