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30 hot against "graft" in the profession; insists that a librarian should be a "Factor and Trader for helps to learning," "a Treasurer to keep them, and a dispenser to apply them to use;" gives keen hints for advantageous buying and wise selection; advises yearly reports and a judicious keeping in touch with the board of directors, influencing them to use their knowledge of various branches for the needs of the library; would have his books well classified and catalogued; condemns the Heidelberg library, whose vast resources are like unto the talent which the man hid in the ground. But above all, and ever