General Notes.

MRS. S. RUSSELL, of Middletown, Conn., has left $40,000 to the Russell Free Library.

THE new library and art building of Washington and Lee University is completed. It is the gift of Mrs. Josephine L. Newcomb, of New York, the widow of the late Warren Newcomb, of Louisville, Ky.

A JOHN BRIGHT ROOM. - Messrs. Richard & George Tangye, of Birmingham, propose to fit up a room in the new Free Library of that town, to be called the "John Bright Room," and to stock it with books on history and political economy, and also to provide means of keeping up a supply of works on these subjects.-Athenæum.

WYCOMBE. Since 1876 Mr. J. O. Griffits, Q.C., Recorder of Reading, has borne the whole expense of the Wycombe Free Library, the money raised by the public accumulating meanwhile as an endowment fund. He has now given buildings for the library on condition that this fund be raised from £1200 to £3000 within seven years.

RAILROAD LIBRARIES.- -"One trunk line company is said to have recently placed small but well-assorted libraries on some of its trains. As good books in such places serve the double purpose of keeping out the train-boy and supplying better reading matter than he usually selects to inflict upon his victims, the travelling public should be grateful. But why should not the company go further and not only put libraries on all its trains, but supply gumdrops and prize packages also, to be taken only at will? Then travel, losing half its terrors, will become twice as popular as now.”—N. Y. Herald.

RAILROAD LIBRARIES.--Circulating libraries of an entirely new description are about to be started at St. Petersburg. A society has been founded for the purpose of supplying the tramcars of that city with supplies of daily newspapers and illustrated weeklies. Passengers who avail themselves of these literary stores are to drop into a box a copeck for each paper they read. No watch is to be kept over the box, the payment being left to the honor of the readers. The society trusts that it will be only occasionally defrauded.-Athenæum.

[It is not stated whether this society was started in the interest of the oculists.-ED.]

PEPYS' LIBRARY.-The library left by Pepys to Magdalene College, Oxford, stands on its shelves precisely as he left it. It is kept in a room apart (under the terms of his will), and the 3000 books are in the handsome carved mahogany bookcases made for him in August, 1666, just before the fire of London. A few are bound in morocco and vellum, the rest in black and gold. Whenever a volume is shorter than another it is raised upon a small wooden

block, painted exactly like the binding. The library is very rich in early printed books, but chiefly famous for five folios of Old Ballads, classified under ten heads.

FREE LAW LIBRARY.-Lucas Hirst, a Philadelphia lawyer, left nearly the whole of his fortune, valued at $180,0co, for the establishment of a free law library for poor lawyers in Philadelphia. Mr. Hirst began his career forty years ago, a penniless errand-boy in Attorney-General Brewster's office, and worked his way to prominence and wealth by the closest application and penurious economy. Never in his life did his food and lodging cost him more than $10 per week, and he was always shabbily dressed. Some years ago he asked the use of a volume at the law institution for a few moments, and was told it could only be granted on his payment of $40, a year's subscription to the institution. He flung himself out in a passion, and at once resolved to leave the bulk of his wealth for the foundation of a free law library.

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FRENCH PUBLIC LIBRARIES.-In addition to the public libraries which have been formed in Paris, there are now nearly 50 in the villages of the Department of the Seine which receive grants from the Council-General. Of these 34 "communal" libraries- that is to say, are paid for out of the public funds; while the others are free libraries-that is to say, founded and kept up by private subscription. But as the communal and free libraries are alike open and free for the benefit of the inhabitants at large, the Council-General grants an annual subsidy of £20 to each library. During the first three months of this year the communal libraries lent 12,695 books, and the free libraries 13.725; this total being more than for the whole of last year. Most of these libraries are only circulating, but a few of them are provided with reading-rooms, which are open in the evenings.London Literary World.

BRUSSELS ROYAL LIBRARY.-The Royal Library at Brussels has adopted an electric "lampesoleil "of MM. Clerc and Bureau, Belgian inventors. It is described as being much more steady than other arc-lights, of very agreeable color, not at all trying to the eye, but on the contrary soothing, and costing only one fourth as much as its competitors. The hall is lighted by three of these lamps as well as it would have been by 125 gas jets of sixteen candle power. The difference in the heat evolved is enormous. The light is all thrown up on to the ceiling and thence reflected through the room. In this way the strong lights and shadows, which are usually the worst feature of arc-lights, are avoided; the light at the reading-table is agreeable, and every alcove is sufficiently lighted to make it easy to find the books. The vestibule and cloak-room are lighted by a dozen incandescent lamps invented by M. L. Nothomb, a Belgian officer; the Belgians naturally think them superior to Edison's.-Nation.

American Statesmen.

VOL. IV. ANDREW JACKSON.

By WILLIAM G. SUMNER, Professor of Political and Social Science in Yale College. 1 vol., 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

It comprises in compact form the leading facts in the life of Andrew Jackson, and describes his connection with public affairs, and his marked influence upon the history of the country during the stormy years of his political life."

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Ballads and Lyrics.

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In this new Bodley Book, which will be hailed with delight by the multitudes who have read the previous Bodley Books, Mr. Scudder takes the Bodley grandchildren to Holland, where they have an exceedingly interesting time, seeing a host of curious and instructive sights, hearing some amusing stories, and listening to thrilling incidents in the history of Holland. (In Press.)

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MORGAN'S SHAKESPEAREAN MYTH. The Shakespearean Myth; or, William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence. By APPLETON MORGAN, A.M., LL.B., author of "Law of Literature," Notes to Best's Principles of Evidence," etc., etc. 12mo, cloth, $2. "The theory certainly has grown in importance of late years. It is no longer flouted as impossible. It is admitted as ingenious, as possible, and even as highly probable by many persons who have gone carefully into the question. It is one of the many puzzles of history and literature which are full of attraction to certain minds. It is very doubtful whether the question can ever be definitely settled. Those, however, who feel inclined to make some little investigation for themselves into the matter, will find Mr. Appleton Morgan's volume exceedingly interesting. Whoever takes the trouble of going through it will find practically all the facts necessary to enable him to form his own judgment in the matter."-Westminster Review. BUTTERFIELD'S DISCOVERY OF THE

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