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 (April 1897) the title of "Räthe vierter Klasse der höheren Provinzialbeamten" has been conferred on all heads of university libraries and the Keeper of Departments in the Berlin Royal Library.

Some statistics of the salaries in other parts of the German Empire may be of interest. In Baden the salaries for assistants and chief librarians range from 2000 to 5000 marks, with in some cases an allowance for a house. These payments are not fixed by law, but by the discretion of the Minister of Education. In Saxony the payments are on a higher scale, the Director of the Royal Library at Dresden receiving on an average 6000 marks, but the maximum salary for assistants reaches 3600 marks. The head of the University Library attains to 8000 marks.

Italy.—The staffs of the thirty-two State libraries consist of eight prefetti, with salaries ranging from £250 to £300 per annum, from twenty to thirty bibliotecari, with salaries of £175 to £225, from ninety to one hundred sottobibliotecari, with salaries of from £75 to £15o. Below these come (1) the ragionieri, attached only to the largest libraries, and employed in the administrator's office; (2) the ordinatori, who look after the continuation of periodicals, keep the register of books lent outside the library, collate new acquisitions, copy titles, &c.; (3) the distributori bring