THER THE Bulletin is published monthly by The New York Public Library at 476 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Subscription One Dollar a year, current single numbers Ten Cents. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, February 10, 1897, under act of July 16, 1894. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized. Printed at The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue. Edmund L. Pearson, Editor. WILLIAM W. APPLETON ANDREW CARNEGIE CLEVELAND H. DODGE JOHN MURPHY FARLEY SAMUEL GREENBAUM FREDERIC R. HALSEY JOHN HENRY HAMMOND BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. P. MORGAN STEPHEN H. OLIN HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL EDWARD W. SHELDON WILLIAM SLOANE I. N. PHELPS STOKES HENRY W. TAFT PAYNE WHITNEY JOHN F. HYLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio. OFFICERS President, LEWIS CASS LEDYARD, 476 Fifth avenue. First Vice-President, ELIHU ROOT. 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BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS CENSUS OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS OWNED IN AMERICA-PART VI. 517 L-M THE EUROPEAN WAR (RECENT ACCESSIONS) RECENT BOOKS OF INTEREST ADDED TO THE LIBRARY CIRCULATION STATISTICS FOR AUGUST PRINCIPAL DONORS IN AUGUST PUBLICATIONS OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY NEW YORK BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS VOLUME 22 SEPTEMBER 1918 NUMBER 9 TH GIFT TO MUSIC DIVISION HE work of the Music Division, in the Central Building, has been given much-needed assistance recently in the form of a fund, at present amounting to $385, received from The Society of the Friends of Music, through Mrs. J. F. D. Lanier, its president. This fund is contributed especially for the purchase of the more expensive modern scores which the Library, without this generous help, would not be able to add to its collection. D NEWS OF THE MONTH GIFTS URING the month of August, 1918, the Library received as gifts a total of 2,052 volumes, 5,038 pamphlets, 37 maps and 225 prints. Some of the more important and interesting of these gifts were the following: From Mrs. Herman K. Viele of New York came a collection of works relating to astrology, containing 70 volumes and 58 pamphlets, among which were Raphael's and Zadkiel's almanacs and "An astrological discourse," by Sir Christopher Heydon, London, 1650; from Mrs. William Allen Butler of Yonkers, N. Y., files of the "Quarterly Review" from February, 1809, to October, 1911, and from January, 1912, to October, 1916, and of the “Edinburgh Review" from October, 1802, to October, 1903, — in all, 439 volumes; from the University of Pennsylvania, a collection of theses presented to the faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1918 (19 volumes and 17 pamphlets); from Mrs. Charles S. Fair child of Cazenovia, N. Y., 95 numbers of "Notes and Queries"; and from the Publishers' Weekly, a miscellaneous collection of books and pamphlets, consisting of 386 volumes and 535 pamphlets. The following gifts of prints were received: From Mr. Leo Mielziner, two of his own lithographs, portraits of General Pershing and of the artist; from Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner, a collection of old prints, 206 in number; from Mr. George Howes Whittle, two copies each of the 7th to 11th installments of his "Monographs on American Wood Engravers" (6 pamphlets, 6 sheets and 34 prints); and from Mr. Wilbur Macey Stone, a lithograph by Adolph Treidler. Important gifts of music were received from the following: From Mr. Bernardus Boekelman of New York, 179 volumes consisting of vocal scores of operas and oratorios, trios and quartets, and violin, violoncello and piano music; from Mrs. James F. D. Lanier of Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y., two orchestral scores by Ernest Bloch; and from Chevalier Eduardo Marzo of New York, a collection of sheet music of songs, anthems, etc., comprising 976 pieces. D ADDITIONS AND USE OF THE LIBRARY IN AUGUST, 1918 URING the month of August, 1918, there were received at the Library 17,369 volumes and 5,203 pamphlets. (These figures include the additions to both Reference and Circulation Departments.) The total number of readers recorded in the Central Building was 47,198. They consulted 139,284 volumes. Visitors to the building numbered 151,996. HIS EMINENCE, JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY The death of Cardinal Farley, since January 13, 1904, a member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library, occurred at Mamaroneck, N. Y., on September 17th. FREDERIC R. HALSEY Mr. Frederic R. Halsey, a member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library since January 8, 1913, died at his home in New York City on September 29th. |