The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-30
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

The number OF volumes issued during the
week eniing August q, 1877, is 2!37, daily
average OF 35s
Among the recent additions are: "Cabct's
Discovery Of North An erica" by q. E
wcare, 20Sl,2i The Fall % the Con o
Arabs" by Sidney Lsngford Hinde, 2O43.27;
Religion OF tine Ancient Egyptians" by A.
wiedemann. 5O7l.Gs Daniel aud the Minor
Prophets" edite hv Il. &. Moulton, 5l0 %. IS /;
journal OF Sir Walter ; oft, edited by Da-
viii Douglas, ", SOL 267: ''The Letters and
Lives OF TIE Tylers,' by Lyon Gardiner Tyler,
8 ", 1888 Edward Cracroft Lefroy, "by q.
A. Gill, 307l.265; THE People for VIII m
Shakespeare Wrote" by Charles Dudley
Warner, s02l ia: The Christian" ly Hall
Cino, l77s IE9; "Th" Ways Of Life" By Mrs.
Ma garet O. W. Oh phant, l70l6,2; Uncle
rnac." b., A. CoIan Do, o 1905. 1913; bar
bara Blomberg' 10y Cen Ebers, 2 ",
1908 lp0; Flowers OF Field, Hill and swamp"
by Caroline a. Creevcy, G0j.l O: The Spirit
of Cookery" by J. L. ". Thudichum, sOl5. Al; /;
Industries and Wealth OF Natiors," by
Michael Or. Muhall. s03i 50: Tao Origins Of
Invention, b" by Otis +. Mason, 7;O.3s; and "A
Selected Bibiorraphy % the Religious De-
nominations Of the United States" compiled
10y George i. b werman, ll6ll2,
\ lew Tt1cltnceS may De given III connec
tio1 with the meeting OF the American Phia
telo society in Boston during tho past week !:
Postage Stamps and Their Origin Ivy
James NJ. Chute, Harper's Magazine, v. 43.
p. also. O5i ll.43; "Con lerate Postage
stamps" by W. NJ Clemens, Lippincott's
Magazine, " "a, p. 2O3 2J5, 054 lLa4; "Mul.
re eidy Envelope" Saturday Review, V. 73,
ls7-ss O52. % 70; STAMP Collecting Craze"
1r Pol tlu
65l6s. C54&6l; United States Postage
stamps" by j. T. Connor, New England
Magazine n. s., v. l8, p. 654-58 O54,Gd 10;
Catalogue of The Postage STAMPS Of the
World, by Bogert & Durbin Company, 1873,
Sl2j.5; and "The Standard Postage Stamp
Catsloyue,' - 1895, sl25.G. Some articles of sprc-
ial interest, in recent volumes of the Amori-
can Philatelist. are "The Manufacture cf the
Postage Stamps OF France" V. &, p. $40,
S525.26; Adhesive stamps" V. Z, b. 2l.23:
Monetary Value of Stamps" V. Z, p. 47-4s;
The Postage Stamps OF Switzerland " v. :,
D. 1880, 90 o. s535?.7; mechanical Aid, for
the stamp Collector" Y. S, p. l7-22, s5252.s;
''Tue Stamps of ~, Louis, " V. 9, q. GJ-G2; and
Mechanical Appliances for the Stamp Col
lector, ". Q, .. CT, s52j.'.l.
Also few references in connection VITA
the ascent of Mount 81 Elias Among the
Thlinsits in Ala,ka," by {. L. :. Wood, Cen
tury, July, 1882, V. p. p. 32339, 05Ll7.24;
climbing Mount 81. Eli - y William vii.
liams, Scribuer's Magazine, April, 1889 V. 3,
q. ys7 -IG3, 05I sos; the two IA ticlo~ on Two
Expeditions 20 Mount ST. Elias" II the Cen
tlry, April, 1891, V. Il, 54l7.4l, namely, The
Expedition q. the New York Times" 1855, ly
Frederick Schwatka, p. sG3 - and The Ex-
Iedition Of the National Geographic Society
and the Unite States Geological Survey"
1872, by Israel G, Rus3cll, p s,2-s& Mount
81. Enas uud Ia GfaGers, . by Mark Brickeil
Kerr, Scrihncr's Magazine, March, 1891, v 0,
p. Sl-,2, "a $50; and George Broke's with
Sack and Stock in Alaska" 40>3 81.