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Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF NEW YORK GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1693

SETH LOW, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.

EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

OFFICERS

President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D.

First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D.

Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq.

Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 40 Lafayette Place.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. JOHN S. BILLINGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

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59th Street, 113 East.

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Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.)

Near 6th Avenue. (Muhlenberg.)

Between 2d and 3d Avenues.

Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Dept. headquarters.)
Near Lexington Avenue.

Near Broadway. (RIVERSIDE.)

79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.)

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Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.)
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Near 3d Avenue.
Near 3d Avenue. (HARLEM.)

110th Street, 174 East.

125th Street, 218 East.

156th Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.)

During the month of March there were received at the Library, by purchase, 1,109 volumes and 365 pamphlets; by gift, 997 volumes and 2,457 pamphlets; and by exchange, 43 volumes and 846 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 5,204 volumes and 3,620 pamphlets, for which were written 13,653 cards, in addition to which 2,531 slips were written for, and 13,789 cards received from, the copying machine.

The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Department at the Lenox, during the month:

The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Lorimer's "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son," Hale's "Memories of a Hundred Years," and Wagner's "Simple Life"; (adult fiction) Ward's "Lady Rose's Daughter," Norris's "The Pit," and Hegan's "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"; (juvenile fiction) Kipling's "Just So Stories," Alcott's "Little Women," and Burnett's "Sara Crewe."

The most important gift of the month was a collection of 345 prints from Mr. Frederick Keppel, accompanied by a letter, dated March 4, the text of which is given herewith:

"I am sending you to-day, by express, a case containing my first little donation of prints to the Public Library. My intention is to give more prints as I get time and opportunity.

"Mr. Samuel P. Avery's really magnificent gift of Nineteenth Century prints sets a standard of the very highest quality to all contributors who will follow him in the good work which he began. I speak with some knowledge of the subject when I say that I do not believe that the Avery Collection could to-day be duplicated at any price, however great.

"Some day I hope that some wealthy man will give to the Print Department a worthy collection of the works of the great old Engravers and etchers-such as Durer and Rembrandt.

Meanwhile, my own contribution of prints, as sent you to-day, consists of 345 pieces, mainly signed proofs of original etchings done by our own American School. It also comprises both original etchings and plates done, in Europe or America, after paintings by other hands. I believe that my contribution of original American etchings has a certain importance. Not only are most of these etchings good as works of art, but many of them are now quite rare-for the reason that