The library is open from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. daily (except Sundays, and Washington's Birthday, Patriots' Day, Memorial Day, Seventeenth of June, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas).

The library is free. Residents of Brookline over twelve years of age may take out books.

Bosanquet, Mrs. H. The standard of life, and other studies. London, 1898.

1314.43.1

Other studies:- Burden of small debts; Klassenkampf; Lines of industrial conflict; Psychology of social progress; Education of women; Industrial training of women; Little drudges and troublesome boys; An apology for 'false statements'; A hundred years ago; Two thousand years ago. Robinson, Mrs. H. J. H. Loom and spindle; or, Life among the early mill girls; with a sketch of "The Lowell offering," and some of its contributors. Introduction by Carroll D. Wright. N. Y., [1898.]

674.13L

"This is a fascinating picture of industrial and social conditions at Lowell, Mass., more than fifty years ago, in the days of the Lowell Offering, when Mrs. Robinson was herself a mill girl there, with Lucy Larcom and other women who later won distinction in literature and art."-Review of Reviews.

Rouse, W. H. D. A history of Rugby school. N. Y., 1898. Illustrated.

1337.9.1

United States. President. A compilation of the messages

Wash.,

and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897, published by authority of congress, by James D. Richardson. 1896-'98. 9v. Portraits and illustrations.

2011.I

Warman, Cy. The story of the railroad. N. Y., 1898. Illustrated. [Story of the west.]

1319.24.1

Wingate, C. F. What shall our boys do for a living? N. Y., 1898.

1332.28

SCIENCE.

Hall, H. S., and Knight, S. R. Elements of algebra. Revised and enlarged by F. L. Sevenoak. N. Y., 1897. 1271.34 Harting, J. E. The rabbit; with a chapter on cookery, by A. I. Shand. London, 1898. Illustrated. [Fur, feather and fin series.] 1974.9.1 Holland, W. J. The butterfly book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. N. Y., 1898. Colored plates and illustrations.

2427.40

Kerr, R. Wireless telegraphy popularly explained. N. Y., 1898. Portraits and illustrations. 2451.15 Phillips, A. W., and Fisher, I. Elements of geometry. N. Y., 1898. [Phillips-Loomis mathematical series.] Todhunter, I. Algebra for the use of colleges and schools, with numerous examples. London, 1897.

BIOGRAPHY.

Collective.

1272.9.2

1271.33

Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Sidney Lee.

Vol. 57, Tom-Tytler. N. Y., 1899.

R. L.

Elson, L. C. Great composers and their work.

Boston,

1898. Portraits.

764.30.1

Escott, T. H. S. Personal forces of the period. London, 1898.

717.25

Sketches of living Englishmen. Harland, M., pseud. Where ghosts walk: the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature. N. Y., 1898. Illustrated.

816.34

Holmes, O. W. Ralph Waldo Emerson; John Lothrop Motley: two memoirs. Boston, 1898. Portraits. 863.25.3

Lahee, H. C. Famous singers of to-day and yesterday. Boston, 1898. Illustrated.

764.29.1

Little journeys to the homes of American authors. N. Y., [1896.] Portraits and illustrations.

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Contents:- Emerson, by G. W. Curtis; Bryant, by C. H. Kirkland; Prescott, by G. S. Hillard; Lowell, by C. F. Briggs; W. G. Simms, by W. C. Bryant; Walt Whitman, by Elbert Hubbard; Hawthorne, by G. W. Curtis; Audubon, by Parke Godwin; Irving, by H. T. Tuckerman; Longfellow, by G. W. Curtis; Edward Everett, by G. S. Hillard; George Bancroft, by G. W. Greene.

Sharp, R. F. Makers of music: biographical sketches of the great composers; with chronological summaries of their works, facsimiles of their compositions, and general chronological table. N. Y., 1898. Portrait. Who's who? 1899: an annual biographical dictionary. Edited by Douglas Sladen. London, 1899.

Individual.

764.30.2

R. L.

Bismarck. Bismarck, the man and the statesman: being the reflections and reminiscences of Otto, Prince von Bismarck, written and dictated by himself after his retirement from office. N. Y., 1899. 2V. Portraits and facsimile. 766.12.1