Douglas are absent, & cannot therefore learn or assure You at this tyme, whether th Erle is privie to this Course tending as I verilie think, to shape of M! Richard Douglas & his Frendes from further dealing in these behalfs, & it is evident. enough from whence this Advice cometh, & to what end it is directed, therefore I leave th' Order of it wholly to your good Consideration right humbly prayeng You to deliver Me from ye Danger that may fall on Me by any busy or undutiful office to be found in Me & to direct Me what Course I shall take herein, with M: Douglas, to th' intent I may escape all Errour ether in ye Execution of my Service in my Charge, or in th' Accomplishm! of honest offices to be done to ye Gentleman interessed in this Matter, wherein I shall attend your Letter & Advice that my Doing may ye better agree to ye Course thought meetest to be followed herein. Edenb. 5o Aprilis. 1590. Published monthly by The New York Public Library, No. 40 Lafayette Place, New York City. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894. BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILLIAM W. APPLETON. SAMUEL P. AVERY. JOHN BIGELOW. JOHN L. CADWALADER. ANDREW H. GREEN. SAMUEL GREENBAUM. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY. JOHN S. KENNEDY. EDWARD KING. LEWIS CASS LEDYARD. ALEXANDER MAITLAND. ALEXANDER E. ORR. HENRY C. POTTER. GEORGE L. RIVES. CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. PHILIP SCHUYLER. GEORGE W. SMITH. FREDERICK STURGES. SETH LOW, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, 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. BRANCHES-REFERENCE Lafayette Place, 40. (ASTOR.) Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.) CIRCULATION East Broadway, 22. (CHATHAM SQUARE.) East Broadway, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.) 7th Street. 106 Avenue C. 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.) 13th Street, 251 West. 23d Street, 130 West. 34th Street, 215 East. 42d Street, 226 West. 59th Street, 113 East. 65th Street, 116 West. Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.) Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Dept. headquarters.) Near Broadway. (RIVERSIDE.) 79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.) 91st Street, 121 West. Bet. Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) 100th Street, 206 West. 110th Street, 174 East. 125th Street, 218 East. Near 3d Avenue. (HARLEM.) 156th Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.) During the month of September there were received at the Library, by purchase, 586 volumes and 304 pamphlets; by gift, 1,008 volumes and 3,175 pamphlets, and by exchange, 44 volumes and 157 pamphlets; making a total of 1,638 volumes and 3,636 pamphlets. There were catalogued 1,614 volumes and 2,366 pamphlets, for which were written 9,091 cards, in addition to which 2,114 slips were written for, and 11,325 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 Exhibit at the Lenox, during the month: 66 CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT. The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Wentworth's Algebra," Waddington's "Letters of a Diplomat's Wife," Meyers's "History of Rome"; (adult fiction) Allen's "Mettle of the Pasture," Ward's "Lady Rose's Daughter," London's "Call of the Wild"; (juvenile fiction) Lang's "Red Fairy Book," Clemens's "Huckleberry Finn," Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy." |