Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

or a total of 10, 5i5 for the first month.
That for last week was 3225, or grand
total of Is, 1853 for the five weeks in which
we have been serving tie public. This is
a daily average Of over s25.
Since the last meeting we have put S25
some 6O6 have gone into circulation or
upon the reference shelves.
AT G o'clock this evening" the number Of
registered borrowers was 4,0lG, showing
that we shall pass the 8, 600 mark this week.
The sum of $5l5 has been collected for
fines and dues, and this source of income
will increase from this time forward until
it becomes an,iniportant sotifce of revenue.
The books are being returned with due
regularity aud ! consider the outlook a.
very favorable one. We certainly have
good reason to congratulate ourselves upon
the success that has crowned the efforts
that have been made 10 benefit the inhabi-
tants of our city.
Respectfully submitted,
A. W. TYLER Librarian.
The purchase of large list of books
was authorized to be made during the
coming month, among them works in
general literature and new fiction as fol-
lows:
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Blow. Symbolic education.
Blumer. Home life of the ancient Greeks.
DAILY. settlement of the Jews in North
America.
Dawson. Some salient points in the science
of the earth.
Field. The Barbary coast.
Fortier. Louisiana studies.
Gosse. Jacobean poets.
Hardy. Sunny days OF youth.
Jebb. Growth and influence Of classical
Greek poetry.
La Rocheterie, Life of Marie Antoinette.
Lockyer. Dawn OF astronomy.
Memoirs of Anne e. l.. Botta, by her friends.
Sanderson. History of England and the
British Empire.
Story Of Japan.
Story of the recovery of Spain.
Winsor. Cartier to Frontenac.
The following new fiction:
Balzac. Two young married women. Vii
lage rector.
Barrett. Woman of the iron bracelets.
Burstenbinder. A lover from across the
sea.
Cameron. Tragic blunder.
Carey. Esther Cameron's story.
Cetherwood. White islander.
Cherbulez. A Phidian horse.
Crawford. Katharine Lauderdale.
Doudney. When we two parted.
Doyle. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
of the civil war.
Gerard. Lot Is.
Gould. Cheap Jack Zita.
Grand. Ideala. Our manifold nature.
Halevy. Partisan points of view.
Hale Far from to day.
Harraden. Ships that pass in the night.
Harte. Protegee of Jack Hamlin's.
Hillern. On the cross
Jackson. Son OF a prophet.
Tnhnaan tiahath
Jerome. John Ingeriield.
Kennedy. In the dwellings of silence.
Mitchell. Mr.. Kris Kingle.
Moore. A gray eye or SO.
Murray. In direct peril.
0rtolli. Evening tales.
Phelps. Bailitf of rewkesbury.
Praed. Christina Chard.
Russell. The emigrant ship.
Saintine. Picciola.
Schwartz. The greater glory. :"
Seelye. Lost canyon of the Toltecs.
Sienkiewicz. Pan Michael.
Story of Margredel. - ......
Taylor. American Peercss.
Terhune. Mr.. Wayts wlfe's sister.
Tuthet. Costly freak.
Waliszewski. Romance of an empress.
Ward. Marcela.
Weyman. A gentleman of France.
White, (M. Rutherford), Revolution in
Tanners lane. Catharine Furze.
Woolson. Horace Chase.
Zangwill. King of the Schnorrers.
1t was also decided to duplicate the
sets of the writings of the great Ameri.
can and British novelists, such as
Cooper, Crawford, Hawthorne, o. W.
Holmes, Stowe, &C., and Dickens, Eliot,
Lytton, Scott, and the rest whose fame
is world wide.