Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-26
Valuable Acquisitions TO the Insti.
fQlo Library.

The library has just come into pos'
session of complete Index to Peri.
Odical Literature" by Wn. Frsderick
Poole, l.. L. d. librarian Of the Chicago
public library. 1t is an accurate and
indispensable key or Girectoryto all the
valuable thinRs published in over two
thousand different periodicals, embrac-
ing over six thousand volumes. that
have been published In this country,
beginning with the Edinburgh Review,
and two others in 1902 and coming on
down through all the long list to Edu.
cation irst issued in 1881. 1t Is read y
index to 232 different periodicals until
January, 1889.
The author, who Ii q graduate ofYale
College, tells us he began its prepare.
tion indirectly when in college thirty.
five years ago. To secure it's present
perfection, he has asked AMI received
the assistance of 81 cooperating II.
brarians in this country and in Eng land
and Scotland.
The book also contains "ChrOno-
logical COnspectus. enabling the reader
to ascertain the date when any article
appeared, the volumes of the same date
In other serials, enabling one to trace a
discussion through contemporary 30.
rials, and 1t will enable persons with
broken setA of periodicals to re-num ber
them to correspond with the num bering
of the index.
To illustrate the practical value OF
the book, 1t had not been in the library
an hour before patron calling wished
to find the origin of Christmas, and how
it has been observed in different coun.
tries, and the Index directed him al
once to the exact things wanted in
bound magazines, where the subject
WAS found treated In its most popular
form and much more satisfactorily than
. in any Of the cyclopedias.
by the way, the use of Poole's Index
only invites attention to the great value
the Institute library may be to every
| citizen of WilDington and vicinity. II
has its books Of research in specific de-
partments, wanted for frequent con
sultation its works of reference, cyclic
pedias, aliases, etc., Indispensable for
reference. 1t has hundreds and thou.
sands Of valuable biographies, histo-
ries, travels and treaties. There is q
large collection OF excellent fiction,
books of light literature, wanted foI
recreation or diversion, whose aggre
gate cost puts them beyond the reach
of most readers. There is now to be q
much enlarged list of the best papers
and magazines. all the cream Of cur
rent literature, embracing scores OF
issues weekly, with which all, espe'
cially the young and literary disposed,
wish to be familiar, but beyond the
reach Of the solitary subscriber fol
them, but put in the easy reach Of all
by the cooperative advantages offered
to all patrons of the Institute The
constant wonder is why there is no,
one thousand or more subscribers Il
this reading-room, which is bound tt
rise to q greater popularity, and be
come literary and educational centre
factor and force in our midst, as citi
xens of the city slowly learn to realize
and appreciate what it Is and may b.
TO all. We would advise every paren
to give his children the advantages an(
Opportunities 1t offers. Begin nov
with the new year. The librarian OK
tends cordial Invitation to those no
acquainted with it 10 visit the reading
room and see what it is, but its wortl
can only be found by it's use.