The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-12
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!
All Sorts and Conditions Of
Literature for All Sorts
and Conditions
of Men.

books? Tackled on to this comes other
questions about the number of books in
circulation, what are principally read, and
many other matters ramifying from the
first simple question. In the seventy
and odd thousand books now in the
library almost every branch of knowledge
may be investigated. There are works on
philosophy religion and science, on all
the "ologies" on all the arts, fine and
useful, on fiction, history, biography and
travels, in German, French and Italian,
and there are even books for the blind
Beyond the general run of books the
library contains a large collection of very
valuable works impossible to replace.
These have come as gifts from private
citizens and are rightly regarded as
literary treasures of rare worth. Every
year books are being sent to the library
and it may surprise some to learn that the
donors have come not only from hundred
harbored Maine to the Golden Gate and
from the frozen north to the sunny
south, but from foreign countries.
Among the local donors are:--J w.
Hardenbergh, DR.. L. ]. Gordon, Harry
w. Winfield, Mrs. William Arrowsmith,
who, this year, gave 81 volumes on veter-
mary science; Mrs. j. w. Clark, S19 vol
umes and 3S1 pamphlets belonging to her
late husband, DR.. Clark; Mrs. M. A. Nc
Cartin, a complete set of Harper's "Ba-
zaar;;'' DIR. w. w. Varick,A l01 medical
,,o1,,,,as ,r;ss Irana n E,rost +ba late
Pow Father Hennassy ev-Assamhl N
caoroa A Heano- Sassion of the E,irst
prasbvterian cbnrcb. Nfrs Stirline
Messrs william T TAFT I.angdon s
Thomson Jobn v Raeot Nelson 7. TT
Edge. Hugh Dugan. CAPTAIN George H.
Farr,er. George B. Fielder. Hasbrouck
Institute. w. c. Heppenheimer Miss
Alice A. Holmes. Hugh A. Kelly. A.
Krause, DR.. John D. McGill, Mrs. George
r. Richardson, Henry Snyder, Miss Mary
A. White, F. w. Warburton, Robert
Brooks, A. J. Doan, R. M. Fowle Miss
Boerum, William W. Coffin DR.. Benjamin
Edge, Mrs. c. P. Farrier, Whittier House,
L. B. Ward, Leslie Rowe, St. Peters Col
lege 7. McEwan, Mrs. Horace c. Wait.
Otto Grouse, John G. Gopsill, Rev. James
Chrystal and Rev. Isaac Borts
Some OF the gifts received have peculiar
local interest. In the collection OF over
a thousand books sent by Mr. Harry
Wlnheid from ms late rather, Prose
cutor Wlnhelo,s collection, We're papers
soieiy reiatihs 70 1luusoh county away
PACK IN the carry tnlrtles. Inese gnts
from Mr. Wlhheid VIII De kept as sep
arate cohection 70 pe known as the VIM
neid Library, ana tnese Will pe 1ound 10
oe Oh the hlghest importance 10 historical
students Another valuable gift recently
received was $50 volumes and 10 pamphlets
from Dr. Gordon Is. Dickinson, all Of
which are on miscellaneous subjects, and
these, too, will be formed into a separate
collection OF great interest is present
made last year to the Library from the
Wlelif Society OF England, which import
ant body enriched the Library's refer
ence department by gift of 2l volumes
in Latin of the great English Reformer,
John Wiclif's works Another much
priced object owned by the Trustees is a
stained piece of parchment yellow with
age, signed by Philip Carteret, Governor
of the province of New Jersey during the
reign of the Merry Monarch, King
Charles II of England. In addition the
Trustees possess the early documentary
history of the various municipalities now
constituting Jersey City, old records. re-
ports, minutes and publications of i'm
mense literary value which will make
mighty interesting reading for the pa
irons of the Library in POOL.
AS a striking proof that the Jersey City
library is well patronized by the neonle
Dr. L. j. Gordon, of the Board of Trus-
tees, is the authority for the statement
that up to November 80. last year. APO. .46S.
were the figures of the circulation and
of that sum 244,5S0 were through the deliv-
cry wagon. In the reference roorsA the
number of volumes consulted for reference
was 67. .S22. and during that same period
84.s34 people visited the reading rooms.
1t is a pleasant fact to record that bv far
the greatest patrons Of the library are
the nupils of grammar high scbooIs ond
colleges. Next comes. mostly married
women and their daughters clerks and
mechanics and ii is "a aueer fact also
that among tbe accnnatians of borro,vo,s
those in employ of citv and Federal gov
ern,nent use the Iibrarv tba least
Now, while good books. and onlv these
are to he fornd in tba 1ibrarv snraad II !
formation abroad, yet it often HAPPENS p m thew lev
snraad disease ana daa+b pa+holar;.ts
have long declared red l, book nef1slsof an ef,ielspt