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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.

GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
HERMAN A. METZ, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
PATRICK F. MCGOWAN, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

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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.

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Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
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During the month of May there were received at the Library, by purchase, 983 volumes and 482 pamphlets; by gift, 1,124 volumes and 2,746 pamphlets; and by exchange, 270 volumes and 2,116 pamphlets, making a total of 2,377 volumes and 5,344 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 2,461 volumes and 3,468 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 13,321 and of slips for the copying machine 3,114; from the latter were received 12,488 cards.

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 Exhibition at the Lenox during the month :

The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Spargo's "Bitter Cry of the Children," Shaw's "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant," "The Long Day"; (adult fiction): Ward's "Fenwick's Career," Beach's "The Spoilers," Wister's "Lady Baltimore"; (juvenile fiction): Alcott's "Little Women," Barbour's "Four in Camp," Burnett's "Little Princess."