Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-02-28
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devoted 10 an examination NJ the books now
in the library, and 10 making notes Of the more
important deficiencies Of the collection.
The room now occupied by the library !, /
one on the lower floor Of the recitation hall, |
the entrance being 10 the right ofthe door open
ing from the stairway lobby. The room runs |
the width Of the building and Is almost a. wide |
from mauka to makai. On one side a large |
cabinet. Of geological, Genealogical and misceI |
lancous collections occupies nearly the whole |
space from floor to ceiling and from wall to
wall, except on the west and where q door
leads into one of two recitation rooms on the
makai end Of the building. On the other side Of
the room shelving is continuous there being
nine division, ofmtheriuegularw width, avcmging
about 311 feet, each Of which has ten shelves
The room Is lighted by rive windows, and en-.
tered by two doors and at each end Of the room
are two open book cases, each three feet wide,
having ten shelves. There is at present unused
shelf room Tor three hundred volumes and
the removal II yalueless volumes would give
space for fully as many more, The number Of
books in the library tbound) is about I,2oo
unbound pamphlets, some 1900.
In reference volumes the library is not rich
unless a vast amount Of United States govern.
mental reports, including congressional debates,
state documents, geological and geodetic sur.
vcy reports and journals Of the Smithsonian
Institute be considered reference richness.
There are, Of course, several lexicons, diction.
aries, gazetteers and encyclopedias including
the last edition Of "The American Cyclic
pedia," an American edition OF 1.-THE Edin.
burg Encyclopedia" published in 1883 and
the "Encyclopuda Britannica, edition Of 1861.
Latin and Greek classes abound, in the orr.
ginal and in TRANSACTIONS. There are some thirty
volumes Of IIarper's Classical Library and
several volumes Of Bohns.
General Literature is fairly well represented,
through the Waverley Novels and full set Of
the English poets, not including those Of the
latter half Of the 10TH century, and those IA.
miarly associated British essaysts, Macauley.
Macintosh, Allison, Carlyle and Wilson ;
several Of the American poets /; but none Of
the best American essayists. In English his.
tory Hume Macauley and Knight are ON the
shelves but not Hallam and May, Won Ranke
Greene, Stubs, Freeman or Froudc. In the
study of European development Buckle, Draper
and Lecky are helpful. In medieval history,
Sismondi's"l Italian Republics, "lialIam's ellis.
tory Of the Middle Ages" and Allison's una.
bridged history of Europe, not on the shelves,
are necessary to even 1.-THE beginnings OF
completeness Motley ana Prescott are not in
the library There is an old edition Of George
Bancroft's United States" but the new and
revised one is needed, is also Bryants, Won
HOSTS, flildreth's and one or two accounts OF
the late civil war-.incuding Draper. Bancroft's
work on the American Constitution, Nordhoff'
) Politics for Young Americans and one or two
Of Francis Liebcr's work on Democracy OF
perhaps Laboulayc and Gasparin.
Gibbon, Mommsen, Niebuhr and Meryale
are essential reference works in the study o
Roman history. Grote's Greece is already il
the library, but neither the works of Curtu
or Of other modern historians Of iellas ar,
represented. In French history, Theirs, Gui
zot, Michelet, Martin and Lanfrey are no
represented, though there is an edition OF Car
! lyle's 90 French Revolution"-a work that n,
one can rightly understand without preyiou
< full readings in the history OF the period it St
dramatically portrays. German history is no
represented, nor Italian, Russian, Spanish, o
any other n,a.lasn European history With any
thing like adequacy.
These brief lists might Of course be amplihe
: Indefinitely but there is neither time nor space
nor is there need for such application. Nj
Sanford has kindly jotted down few Of til
8 reference volumes most pressingly needed: "All
), bones Dictionary Of Authors, "Pooles Ir
# dex of Periodical Literature, " Encyclopedia
n Britannica" late edition, Musical Encyclc
IS paeda, Z" History OF Fine Arts" Moder
o popular science, modern English poets Eng
n lish prose literature and literary biography
,, political philosophy and economy, biology an
$ chemistry and critical writings generally al
e needed.
Among the antiquarian treasures in ii
g library are the following " lked,lla 7Hec
v losis; or the Marrow of Divinity" London
/. printed by Thomas Ratclih for Thomas Under
" hill, at the Blue Anchor and Bible in ST. Paul
" Churchyard, 1859.
IF "A Commentary on Historical Books
re the Old Testament, by Symon Patrick, Lor
is Bishop of Ely, London, 1888. This work ha
lie on the title page the following license to print
Of "InP,TMafnt."
'e L0uc6etiat
&c Mari eo' 10. Cant"
e. "Io0{
or "/ohannim CaiVini, lKasm TheOlogi IuStitl
Of Honam CAriSiiana ReiigOniJ Li6,i Qnatnoy,
y Amsterdam, 1867.
y "Old Testament and Apocrypha," tSeptu
" gint,) in Greek, 1909
y " Concordance lGreekl TO New Tcsl |nent,
TT 1910.
T. CONCORDANCE Greek to Septuagint," III
Translation of Homer into French, III
IN sold Testament Q.atinl with notes" Gen
c. sis to Esther Geneva, 1890.
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