The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-24

The number Of volumes issued during the
week ending May q, 1897. is 1905, daily
average cf i3l.
Among the additions Of the past week are
the late Archbishop Benson's posthumous vol
ums ON "Cyprian, S55Gl Beauty and Art, "
by Adam. .HeatoD, @0.il2; an English transla-
tion Of Pellissier's Literary Movement in
Franco in the Nineteenth Century, 1887 l05.b b.;
and the recently issued Autobiography and
Letters" Of Edward Gibbon. 30,2.2
The second years revision Of the "Co-opera'
tive List Of Periodicals Is now ready at the
library. in the April Monthly Bulletin, p
75Si. II comprises 1880 entries and represents
The titles OF the periodicals. serials, annualA
etc. currently recei sed at 20 different lib
rAries and reading rooms. Notwithstan ling
the discontinuance OF certain periodicals dur.
ing the past year, the list, as a whole shows q
net gam over that II a year ago Monthly
Bulletin, w, p. 42-5S). OF these 20 libraries
"A are within the limits OF Providence, the re-
mainig six being included either because Of
their proximity or ON account OF the value
OF their scientific serials 20 scholars. OF the
~, four are free TO the public 40 large the re-
rainder being accessible under conditions
easy ascertained by application at the respec
tive institutions named. Divided by localities,
there are included Sol American Including
Canadianl publications, l09 British, 5o
French. Ill German ana II Of other nations.
The publications represented include also,
roughly about ~ per cent under the head Of
periodicals. about 30 per cent under the head
Of serials and about 10 per cent under the head
| OF snnuals. out of the total of lllO taken az
all Of the ~ libraries represented, 52l are
| taken at this library, this number being an
! increase of SO over last year. In the reference
/ work of the library particularly, the material
I comprised i'm these publications Is OF con
| stantly increasing seTviceableness, and the
/ library tools" Introducing the reader TO
thor contents are brought in uninterrupted
| requsition dt the Information desk. Among
| these are Poole's Index 20 Z. riodical Lit
/ erature" looming down TO 1887. continued
| by its two supplementary volumes (loSg-Sl
| and l8S1-9U, since which time 10 Is continued
| b. five annual publications, tho latest being
| ''rho Annual Literary Index, 1896. This,
| moreover, NAV be regarded as still further
continued by the Cumulative Index pub
/ hshod monthly at Cleveland, bringing the
matter alnost literally up 20 date. As cover
| ing "A similar ground each month. and there
fore overlapping with tho above, may bs
| mentioned the monthly Index 60 PeriOdi
GALS in each number Of the Review of Re
| views and the Continuous Index in tbs
/ Reader published monthly at Cambridge
! Besides the above, whicn aim 10 cover tht
! field in general, various special fields ar,
elsewhere covered, as I'm the Engineering I'm
dcx" in each number of the Engineering
| Magazine. The annual acc sston 20 tn,
library shelves, resulting from the bound
volumes of these publications, Is by no means
/ of slight amount or of slight value Each
year. in July, an extended entry Is supplteC
| OF all these bound volumes for the year, n
nearly every instance characterizing tn,
most noteworthy Of it's contents. An eXsni
| nation of such record, the Monthly Bulle
| tin, " 2 p. 1911. makes It plain that ther'
| is scarcely an instance among them which
/ does not contain material of direct and com
/ maudng interest and connected with che
| subjects about which readers are thinking.
In the open bookcase outside the counter
! for the next few weeks, readers will find
/ : lection from the books on state Constitu
| rions and Their Revision" cited IN th'
| reference list on that subject in the Apri
| Monthly Bulletin, p. RIA