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 j84 The Library, West Ham Public Libraries. Canning Town Branch. Cata- logue of the General Lending and Reference Departments. Sections 1-6, A to Nine, in parts. 8vo, Lond., 1894. A dictionary catalogue. Printed across the page. The cover of section 4 has the contents misprinted and the author-references to fiction and other matter left out, but the form in which we have received it is evidently but a temporary one. Royal Dublin Society. Catalogue of accessions, 1891-1893. 6 pts., 8vo. 1891-3. Dictionary catalogue, with collations, imprints, &c. Printed across the page. Lake Forest University Library, Illinois. Finding List. Dec., 1893. 8vo, pp. vii., 119. 1893. A classified list with a single location appended to item to enable the reader to find the book he wants, as this is an " open library.'' Blank leaves at the end for notes or for pasting in lists of later additions. TCccorfc of ^Btblioorapbp an& Xibrars literature. A brief Bibliographical Account of some of the chief works in the Reference Department of the Free Public Library, Reading, by Wm. H. Greenhough, Public Librarian. 8vo, pp. 28. 1894. This pamphlet contains Mr. Greenhough's descriptive account of books in the Free Reference Library at Reading, which were recently specially exhibited to the members of various local learned societies, and those who had the privilege of hearing Mr. Greenhough considered that his notes were worth circulating for the benefit of students in Reading generally, and accordingly requested his committee to print them. For our own part, we have read the descriptions with the greatest interest and pleasure, and we strongly recommend the preparation of similar guides to the contents of our free reference libraries everywhere, and more particularly do we recommend it to those who have occasional exhibitions of their treasures after the manner suggested by Mr. Lan- caster in his paper communicated to the Aberdeen meeting of the L.A.U.K. The Reading committee have been well-advised in printing this, and it must have a considerable effect upon the use made of their fine library. Committees might do more in this direction than at present, and print the addresses which are now so often given by librarians upon their books. There are also other librarians not blessed with a gift of public lecturing, who would be in their element when preparing some such chatty guide as this. We should like to see the example of St. Helens, Chelsea and Reading, in making special exhibitions of reference library books, more extensively followed. We have received from Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, a " Catalogue of Angling and Fishing Literature," containing some three hundred entries of books bearing upon this sub- ject. It is an excellent and exactly compiled handbook to angling literature, beautifully printed on large paper, and is published to commemorate the Walton tercentenary. We corn- commend it to all lovers of the " gentle craft."