of the Library is entrusted to the Director. The Staff numbers between twelve and thirteen hundred persons, including those in the Central Building and in the Branches. As the buildings are open between twelve and thirteen hours a day the Staff works in two shifts. Somewhat less than half of the Staff are employed in the Central Building. Benefactors. A complete list of the Library's benefactors, besides the three founders, can more appropriately be given elsewhere. In addition to Mr. Carnegie's gift, one bequest should be noted here: that of John S. Kennedy, who in 1909 left about $3,000,000 to the Library, without conditions. Work of the Library. This historical sketch may help to make clear the organization and work of the Library as it is carried on to-day. It is a free reference library combined with a free circulating library. The books in the Reference Department (in the Central Building) which came from either the Astor or the Lenox Libraries, and those which have been added since the consolidation, from the endowments of those Libraries, must necessarily be for reference use only. The Astor and Lenox Foundations give the Trustees of The New York Public Library no option in this matter. About one million books in the Circulation Department (the Branch Libraries) are lent for home use. IF F YOU are a member of any one of the Branch Libraries you are equally a member of all the others. With but few restrictions the books of all the Branches are at your service. The resources of the Reference Department, in the Central Building, are also for your use, in that building. Some of the readers who frequent the main Reading Room, in the Central Building, seem to be unaware of the Circulating Library near the Forty-Second Street entrance of the same building. Conversely, some of the readers who borrow books from the Circulating Library are unaware that they may also use, for reference purposes, the main Reading Room on the third floor of the Building, and the special reading rooms on all three floors. NEW BOOKS A BOOK NOT OWNED BY THIS BRANCH LIBRARY MAY BE BORROWED FOR YOU FROM ANOTHER BRANCH, UNLESS IT IS IN GREAT DEMAND HISTORY Bashford, J. W. ing the counter-attack. China; an interpretation. The Abingdon Press, 1916. Boucher, C. S. The nullification controversy in South Carolina. The University of Chicago Press, 1916. Calvert, A. F. The German African empire. Laurie, 1916. Contents: German South-West Africa. German East Africa. Togoland. The Cameroons. Chapman, C. E. The founding of Spanish California; the northwestward expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783. Macmillan, 1916. unpub Lee, Robert E. Dispatches, lished letters of General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65; from the private collection of Wymberley Jones De Renne; edited with an introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. Putnam, 1915. Morey, W. C. Ancient peoples; a revision of Morey's "Outlines of ancient history." American Book Co., 1915. Radin, Max. The Jews among the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish Publ. Society of America, 1915. Trapmann, A. H. The Greeks triumphant. Forster, 1915. Contents: The campaign in Epirus. The thirty days' campaign in Macedonia (Greco-Bulgarian war, July, 1913). The world's flags at a glance, with descriptive letterpress. Philip. fear of fear. Anti-aircraft. A fragment. An open town. The signalers. Conscript courage. SmashA general action. At last. Day, Holman. Blow the man down; a romance of the coast. Harper, 1916. Findlater, Mary, and J. H., FINDLATER. Content with flies. Smith, 1916. a France, Anatole. Pierre Nozière; translation by J. Lewis May. John Lane, 1916. The grasp of the sultan. 1916. Grey, Maxwell, pseud. mender. Appleton, 1916. Hall, H. Fielding-. Houghton, 1916. Houghton, The world For England. Contents: Sonnet. For England. The outcast. Freedom [Poem]. The soldier. England of nine [Poem]. The governess. The heroes' road [Poem]. Patriotism. Watchman [Poem]. Innes, J. W. Brodie-. The tragedy of an indiscretion. Lane, 1916. Kuprin, A. I. The duel. Macmillan, 1916. Lessing, Bruno, pseud. Lapidowitz the schnorrer. With the best intention. Hearst's Internat. Library Co., 1915. Lyle, Marius. Unhappy in thy daring. Putnam, 1916. Mille, Pierre. Louise and Barnavaux; translated from the French by Bérengère Drillien. Lane, 1916. Monroe, A. S. Happy valley; a story of Oregon. McClurg, 1916. Moore, F. F. The rise of Raymond. Hutchinson, 1916. Phillpotts, Eden. The human boy and the war. Macmillan, 1916. Contents: The battle of the sand-pit. The mystery of Fortescue. The countryman of Kant. Travers minor, scout. The Hutchings testimonial. The fight. Percy minimus and his Tommy. The prize poem. The revenge. The Turbot's aunt. Corn wallis and me and fate. For the Red Cross. The last of Mitchell. Novels and Short Stories, continued. with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The Blackfriars Pub. Co. Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life; with illustrations by Phiz. The Blackfriars Pub. Co. Harry Coverdale's courtship and all that came of it; with illustrations by Phiz. The Blackfriars Pub. Co. Sologub, Fiodor, pseud. The little demon; authorised translation by John Cournos and Richard Aldington. Knopf, 1916. Sullivan, F. P. The portion of a champion, by Francis o Sullivan tighe. Scribner, 1916. Claes, Jules. The German mole; a study of the art of peaceful penetration; with an introduction by J. Holland Rose. G. Bell 1915. Coleman, Frederic. From Mons to Ypres with General French; a personal narrative. Dodd, 1916. Gosse, Edmund. Inter arma; being essays written in time of war. Scribner, 1916. Contents: War and literature. The unity of France. The desecration of French monuments. The Napoleonic wars in English poetry. War poetry in France. A French satirist in England. The neutrality of Sweden. Hind, C. L. The soldier-boy. Putnam, 1916. Kerr, S. P. What the Irish regiments have done; with a diary of a visit to the front by John E. Redmond. Unwin, 1916. Livingston, St. Clair, and INGEBORG STEEN-HANSEN. Under three flags; with the Red Cross in Belgium, France. and Serbia. Macmillan, 1916. Morgan, J. H. German atrocities; an official investigation. Dutton, 1916. Morlae, Edward. A soldier of the Legion. Houghton, 1916. Originally published in two parts in the Atlantic Monthly. One of the first and probably the most vivid of descriptions of the method by which trenches are captured in this war. The bombardment, the "curtain of fire" and the infantry attack are described here as they have not been described previously for readers of English. The author, an American citizen of French descent, enlisted in the French "Foreign Legion" early in the war, and took part in the great "drive" in Champagne. My secret service, Vienna, Sophia, Constantinople, Nish, Belgrade, Asia Minor, etc., by the man who dined with the Kaiser. Doran, 1916. Patterson, J. H. With the Zionists in Gallipoli. Doran, 1916. Wagger, pseud. Battery flashes. Dutton, 1916. Warnod, André. Prisoner of war; with sketches by the author; translated by M. Jourdain. Lippincott, 1916. Wellman, Walter. The German republic. Dutton, 1916. With my regiment; from the Aisne to La Bassée, by platoon commander. Lippincott, 1916. Contents: Taking out a draft. Railhead and beyond. Early days on the Aisne. In billets. The move up. Nearing the firing-line. Getting into action. An attack at dawn. The reserve company. A night attack. The farm in the firing-line. Pushing forward. In front of La Bassée. A night patrol. With the supports. Between actions. "The -th brigade will attack By the skin of our teeth. And thence to bed. Peace vs. War, continued. Ladd, William. An essay on a congress of nations; for the adjustment of international disputes without resort to arms...; with an introduction by James Brown Scott. Oxford University Press, 1916. Plater, Charles. A primer of peace and war; the principles of international morality, edited for the Catholic Social Guild by Charles Plater. Kenedy, 1915. Towards ultimate harmony; report of conference on pacifist philosophy of life, Caxton hall, London, July 8th and 9th, 1916. Headley, 1915. Contents: The philosophy of pacifism, by Bertrand Russell. The philosophy of pacifism, by E. G. Smith. Religious aspects of non-resistance, by Eva Gore-Booth. Higher resistance and spiritual force, by Carl Heath. Towards ultimate harmony, by W. E. Darby. Art and peace, by J. E. Southall. War and peace in human history, by Edward Carpenter. Darwinism and development through mutual aid, by Herbert Burrows. Bergson and free will, by C. E. Playne. Woman's function in social development, by L. Lind-af-Hageby. School antidotes, by John Russell. The bellicist theory of state structure, by Thomas Baty. Backward races and divergent cultures, by Alice Werner. Spiritual education, by Edward Grubb. Sympathy and liberation, by H. Baillie-Weaver. MILITARY SCIENCE United States. Army Service Schools. Studies in minor tactics, 1915; prepared by Department of Military Art. The Army Service Schools, 1915. U. S. Naval and Military Academy: candidates' book of information, by a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy. The Academy Pub. Co., 1916. POETRY Barker, Elsa. Songs of a vagrom angel, written down by Elsa Barker. Kennerley, 1916. "The Vagrom Angel came at eight o'clock one March morning and stayed with me until six the following morning-twenty-two hours, during which the whole of this book was written down, save three of the songs which were given later and in the same way." Catholic anthology, 1914-1915. Mathews, 1915. So entitled because it contains examples of all the so-called "new" forms of poetry, by English and American authors. Dresbach, G. W. The road to everywhere. Gorham Press, 1916. Fletcher, John Gould. Goblins and pagodas. Houghton, 1916. The Lake is silvering beneath the heat. The wind's feet Touch lazily each crest, Like white gulls slow flapping To windward. One rose white cloud slowly disengages, loosening itself, And stands Above the larkspur-coloured water: Like Dione's daughter Braiding up her wet hair with her pale hands. Frankau, Gilbert. A song of the guns. Houghton, 1916. Kreymborg, Alfred. book of free forms. Prejudice. Little mouse: Are you Mushrooms; a Marshall, 1916. Some rat's little child? I wont love you if you are. Others; an anthology of the new verse, edited by Alfred Kreymborg. Knopf, 1916. A selection of the best free verse by American poets contributing to the magazine "Others." MacDonagh, Thomas, and others. Poems of the Irish revolutionary brotherhood, Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Sir Roger Casement; edited by Padraic Colum and Edward J. O'Brien. Small, 1916. Stuart, R. McE. Plantation songs, and other verse; illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Appleton, 1916. " Among the chapters are: "Description of the Statue," "Restorations," "Recent theories," "The Cult of Aphrodite," "Aphrodite in art." "The temples of Aphrodite lie in ruins...but the ideal of womanhood which she represented has remained and will remain... Every living woman ...is a specimen of the eternal ideal of womanhood." - p. 178. Levy, F. N. A guide to the works of art in New York City; Florence N. Levy, editor. Levy, 1916. |