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 96 THE PANIZZI CLUB. Association, took the first step in the formation of the Bibliographical Society. The coincidence seems to us a very auspicious one. Bibliographical work was one of the objefts of the Library Asso- ciation, and is still the subjedl of an occasional paper in its programmes, but the Association would have needed a separate income and a separate set of workers to do what the Bibliographical Society has done during the last twenty years. On the other hand, if a portion of this work had been substituted for the educational work of the L. A. (which has advanced far beyond its original programme), both librarianship and bibliography would have been the poorer. It may well be hoped that the new body, like the Bibliographical Society, will supplement the work of the Association, and set free its energies in much the same way. In proposing the formation of the club, Mr. MacAlister expressed his belief that among its supporters were included the three kinds of men who, when combined, made for success the dreamers, the organizers, and the dogged workers. The dreamers had been dreaming of a state-sup- ported c London Library,' which should one day rival the British Museum, but now the next step was with the organizers and workers, and their concern with the laying of foundations. The best foundation was the personal acquaintance of librarians with one another, and with one another's libraries, and if nothing else but this came of Mr. McKillop's labours they would not have been wasted. Co-operation between libraries did not necessarily involve a wholesale standardizing of their