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TERMS OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY. All residents of St. Louis are eligible to membership at the following rates: $1.00 for six months, $2.00 for a year, or $25.00 for Life Membership, payable in instalments. LIST OF ADDITIONS. JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1883. Occasionally titles are given of other than recent accessions, for the purpose of supplying deficiencies in the old catalogue, or drawing attention, with explanatory notes, to important books. American ephemeris and nautical almanac for the year 1885. 1st ed. Wash. [Bureau of navigation] 1882.4°..45 AMES, J. G., A. R. Spofford and S. F. Baird. Report regarding the publication and distribution of [U S.] public documents, in compliance with a resolution of the house of representatives, adopted Aug. 8, 1882. Wash. 1882.8° 62b AMMEN, Daniel. The Atlantic coast. See: Navy in the civil war. II ..91c "History of the naval operations from Cape Hatteras to Cape Florida, from 1861 to the close of the war. Include a full account of the long siege of Charleston, the operations against Fort Fisher and the capture of Hatteras Inlet, Roanoke Island and Newbern. The author, Rear Admiral, U. S. N., took an active part in the scenes he describes. Appendix contains some valuable naval statistics. Index."-Publ. weekly. AMONG the lakes. Wm. O. Stoddard....70 Andersen, Hans. Fairy tales; a new translation [by] Mrs. H. B. Paull. ARCADIA. Sir Philip Sidney. ..7 BEN'S nugget. Horatio Alger, Jr........70 Biblia Hebraica, ad optimas editiones imprimis everardi van der Hooght ex recensione Aug. Hahnii expressa; praefatus est E. F. C. Rosenmüller. . . Leipz. [Tauchnitz] 1838. 16°. Black, William. Yolande: a novel. N. Y. [Harpers], 1883. 12°.... ..69b "Insufferably dull."-Nation, Sept. 20, 1883. "Full of poetical feeling. does more credit to the author than any work he has done for some time past."-Sat. rer., June 16, 1883. BONNER, Sherwood, pseud. See McDowell, Catherine S. Boston Museum of fine arts. 16. catalogue of the collection of ancient and modern works of art. PT. I. Sculpture and antiquities. PT. II. Paintings, drawings, engravings and decorative art. Bost. 1881. 12°. Boston. .70 .69d Auerbach, Berthold. Master Bieland and his workmen; tr. by E. Hancock. [Leisure hour ser., No. 153.] N. Y. [Holt], 1883, sq. 16°. .69b "Scene laid in an old German city; time of action embraces the years immediately following the Franco-German war of 1870. Master Bieland is a shoemaker, and his friends all work at trades, and they discuss doctrines of strikes, co-operation and rights of working. Found among Auerbach's posthumous papers.-Publishers' Weekly. men. ... AUSTRALIA. Ridley, Rev. Wm. Kamilràoi and other Australian languages . . . and songs, traditions and customs of the Australian race .51 AUSTRALIA. Sadleir, Richard. The aborigines of Australia .51 BACON, Edwin. [edr.] KING's dictionary of Boston. Baring-Gould. S. Germany 83c [Foreign countries and British colonies series ed. by F. S. PULLING]. Lond. [Sampson Low] 1883. 12°....... 84e Barrett, Mary. The story of William the Silent and the Netherland war. 1555-1584. Bost. n. d. 12°. .70 Beilstein, Dr. F. Lessons in qualitative chemical analysis; translated from the 5th ed., with copious additions, including lessons in organic and in volumetric analysis, by C. O. CURTMAN, M. D. St. Louis [Sta. & Bk. Co.] 1883. 12°....44 Bell, Charles H. Phillips Exeter academy in New Hampshire: an historical sketch. Exeter [Morrill], 1883. 8°. 31 See also: Exeter. Public library. .65e Report by the trustees of the public library on the fitness of the English high and Latin school building for the uses of the public library. Bost. [Rockwell] 1882. 8°. Boston. 788 KING's dictionary of Boston; ed. by Edwin M. BACON; with an historical introtroduction by Geo. E. ELLIS. Cambr. [King] 1883. 12° ..91E 83c "A guide-book, hand-book, and condensed history of the city, its noteworthy institutions, its many organizations, charitable, benevolent, literary and social-its religious denominations and churches, and its varied and most interesting features."-Publ.weekly. Buchanan. James [15th President of the U. S. 1791-1868]. CURTIS, George Ticknor. Life of James N. Y. [Harpers.] 1883. 2 vols. 8°....97b "Mr. Curtis seems to write as a lawyer in defence of a hard-pressed client, instead of taking, as he could well do, a broad and gen-rous ground of vidication. Aside from this objection, he has performed the task of biographer with ability and judgment."-Boston Transcript, Aug. 23rd. "Presents a vivid picture of the greatest crisis which has ever occurred in our political history."-Critic, Sept. 8th. Buckley, Arabella B. The winners in life's race; or, the great backboned family. N. Y. [Appleton.] 1883. 12° 50a "The author has resorted to recent and eminent authorities for the facts which are marshalled with praiseworthy clearness in orderly succession. There is little poetry, no cant, and no objectionable sentimentality."-Nation. "Deals with the vertebrate animals, and is therefore a continuation of Miss Buckley's previous volume. Life and her children' which treated of the invertebrates. The evercontinuous action of the great Creator in the development of living beings-brought to the level of the schoolroom, if not of the nursery." -Spectator, Nov. 18, 1882. |