Evening star., 1939-06-05
Book Pays Tribute
To Dr.. Putnam S Work
AT Congress Library
CopitoI's Leadership
As photographed
Center Hailed

ed for general circulation, but its
contents include convincing evil
dence of the leadership of Washing
ton as library center and of DR..
Putnam as a library administrator.
DR.. Seymour de Ricci bibliog-
rapher. Paris, sums up the sense
of many letters reproduced in the
words: Under your guidance, the
Library of Congress has become one
of the three greatest libraries in
the world and, as regards its educa-
tional activities, it far surpaSses its
two European rivals, the British
Museum and the Paris Bibliotheque
Rationale"
This view is supported by Arun-
dell Esdaile, secretary of the British
Museum, who writes: ITO estimate
the growth of a library by mere
counting of volumes may be left to
the worlds coarse thumb and finger.
Librarians know that your work has
been profounder. They know that
you have so organized and vitalized
the Library that you have in so do
ing created in other Libraries a
new and wider conception of their
functions, in harmony with our pc
riod's widening conceptions of the
civilization which libraries exist to
serve"
Mastery Praised.
DR.. Henry Guppy, librarian of
the John RylandS Library, Man.
chester, England declares: You
have made of your national library
one of the worlds most notable
institutions of learning, and you
have done this in the first place by
your mastery of the science of mys-
terry of librarianship, and in the
second place by the single minded
dedication of your gifts of character
to the service of your library and
country
Similar expressions are printed
under the names of DR.. Victor
Tourneur, chief librarian of the
Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, Bel
GUM; Dr. Svend Dahl, chief libra
rian of the Copenhagen Library,
Denmark; Julien Cain, administra-
tor general, Bibliotheque Rationale,
Paris: Henri Lemaitre, director OF
Recommendation, Institute for Eco
nomic Research, Paris; Prof. DR..
Hugo A. Kruss, director general,
Prussian State Library, Berlin, Ger
many; DR.. Heinrich Uhlendahl,
director general, German Library,
Leipzig; Sir Frederic G. Kenyon,
secretary of the British Academy,
director and principal librarian,
British Museum, 10000; L. STAN
ley Just, former chief librarian,
Manchester Free Libaries, England;
DR.. H. H. E. Craster, Bodley's
Librarian, Oxford; Ernest A. Savage,
principal librarian, Edinburgh Pub
lie Libraries, Scotland DR.. Luigi de
Gregori, inspector general Of the
Italian libraries, Rome: Prof. DR..
Albano Sorbelli, director Of the
Bologna Library, Italy; DR.. Jacob
Ter Meulen, director librarian of the
Palace of Peace, The Hague, the
Netherlands: DR.. T. P. Sevensma,
librarian of the National University,
Leyden, the Netherlands; DR.. Isak
Collin, chief librarian, Royal Lii
brary, Stockholm, Sweden; DR..
Marcel Godet, director, Swiss Ma
tional Library. Bern: his eminence
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, secre-
tary Of the congregation of the
Oriental Church, formerly pro-
prefect of the Vatican Library,
Rome, and DR.. Rafael Aguilar y
Santillan, Mexico.
American Tributes.
American tributes reproduced in
clude messages of felicitation from
DR.. James Truslow Adams, South
port, Conn; DR. Randolph G. Adams,
Ann Arbor; Miss Anna Seymour
Ames, Washington: DR.. Sarah B.
AskeW, Trenton, N. j.; DR.. Percy
Lee Atherton, Jacksonville, Fla; DR..
James P. Baxter, Sd, president Of
Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass; DR.. j. Christian Bay, Chi
cago; DR.. William w. Bishop, Ann
Arbor: Robert Woods Bliss, Wash
ington; DR.. Edwin M. Borchard,
Yale University, New Haven; DR..
Arthur E. Bostwick, St. Louis; DR..
Henry E. Bourne, Cleveland; DR..
Clarence S. Brigham, Worcester,
Mass; Frank Chaouteau Brown,
Boston; Charles H. Compton, st.
Louis; Miss Gratia A. Countryman,
Minneapolis; DR.. Harrison w. Cra-
ver New York; Mrs. Mary Wright
Davis, San Diego. Calf; DR.. Linda
A. Eastman, Cleveland; George R.
Farnum, Boston; DR.. Max Ferrand,
San Marino, Calf; DR.. Milton j.
Ferguson, Brooklyn, N. Y; DR..
Charles Fleischer, New York; Asso-
ciate Justice Felix Frankfurter,
Washington; Edwin L. Garvin,
Brooklyn, N. Y; Miss Mabel R.
Gillis, Sacramento, Calf; DR..
Chalmers Hadley, Cincinnati; DR..
George H. Haynes, Worcester, Mass;
DR.. Burton j. Hendrick, New York;
DR.. Frank P. Hill, Hartford, Conn.,;
Walter M. Hill, Chicago; Thomas j.
Holmes, Worcester, Mass: DR.. M. A.
De Wolfe Howe, Boston; DR.. Hubert
w. Hurt, De Land, Fla; Judson T.
Jennings, Seattle: DR.. Andrew
Keogh, Orlando, Fla; DR.. Freder-
lex P. Keppel, president of the
Carnegie Corp, New York; Willis
H. Kerr, Claremont, Calf; DR..
Theodore w. Koch, Evanston, ILL.,;
N. Lawson Lewis, Cleveland; Milton
E. Lord, Boston; DR.. Harry M. Ly-
denberg, New York; DR.. Dayton c.
Miller, Cleveland; DR.: Charles
Moore, Gig Harbor, Wash; Ralph
Mum, Pittsburgh; Theodore w.
Moves, editor in chief of The Star
and president of the Trustees of
Washington Public Library; Gif-
ford Pinchot, former Governor of
Pennsylvania; Miss Margery Quig-
ley, MontcAir, N. j.; Miss Josephine
A. Rathbone, Brooklyn; B. H. Rob-
erts, Washington; L. A. Roberts,
BROOKLYN; DR.. Carl B. Roden, Chi
cago; DR.. A. S. w. Rosenbach, Phil
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