Draper, Mrs. Henry Egypt, Dir. Gen. des Douanes Egypt, Public Works Dept. . Amana Society Amer. Agriculturist Amer. Bankers' Association. Amer. Water Color Society. Audit Company of New York Bahamas, Col. Sec. Baltimore, City Comptroller Belgium, Bibliothèque Royale Belgium, Min. des Finances Bordeaux, The Mayor Boulogne-sur-Mer, Chambre de Commerce (30 postals). Brest, The Mayor . Brick Presbyterian Church California, State Horticult ural Comm'n. California, State Library Cape of Good Hope, Col. Sec. Century Association Chicago Tribune Cobden Club Connecticut, State Board of Education. Cooper Union Creed, Miss Portia. Fielde, Miss Adele M. Swift, Morrison I. . Vander Veer, Dr. Albert Vanderbilt, John A. Victoria University of Manchester. Volta Bureau, Washington, Waltham (Mass.), The Mayor I 6 13 93 443 14 2 . 2 3 2 Published monthly by The New York Public Library, No. 425 Lafayette Street, New York City. Superintendent, No. 425 Lafayette Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894 WILLIAM W. APPLETON. JOHN L. CADWALADER. SAMUEL GREENBAUM. H. VAN RENSSELAER KENNEDY. JOHN S. KENNEDY. EDWARD KING. LEWIS CASS LEDYARD. ALEXANDER MAITLAND. HENRY C. POTTER. GEORGE L. RIVES. CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL. PHILIP SCHUYLER. GEORGE W. SMITH. FREDERICK STURGES. GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor 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., 425 Lafayette Street. 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue. 76th Street, 538 East. (WEBSTER.) (RIVERSIDE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) 79th Street, 222 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.) 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue. (St. Agnes. BLIND LIBRARY.) 86th Street. 536 AMSTERDAM AVENUE. During the month of June there were received at the Library, by purchase, 820 volumes and 708 pamphlets; by gift, 1,026 volumes and 2,611 pamphlets; and by exchange, 233 volumes and 1,790 pamphlets, making a total of 2,079 volumes and 5,109 pamphlets. There were catalogued 2,527 volumes and 2,360 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 10,958 and of slips for the copying machine 1,630; from the latter were received 11,213 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): Ibsen's "Dramas," Dexter and Garlick's "Psychology," Churchill's "Lord Randolph Churchill"; (adult fiction): Ward's "Fenwick's Career," Sinclair's "The Jungle," Green's "Woman in the Alcove"; (juvenile fiction): Alcott's "Little Women," Lang's Red Fairy Book," Stratemeyer's "Under Togo for Japan." |