13.

Boston Common Council advocates library, 53.

Boston, libraries in, 80.

Boston Public Library; address at its dedication, by Edw. Everett, 127.

Boston Public Library, 280, 317;
children in, 408;
its building, 81;
gifts to, 153;
facilities of, 327;
fiction purchases in, 321;
praised, 151;
George Ticknor on, 50;
statistics in 1885, 234.

Bowditch mathematical collection, Boston, 327.

Bradford, Wm., booklover, 19.

Brashear, John, 37.

Bright, John, quoted, 41.

Bristol, Eng., library report quoted, 208.

British
education acts, 202;
library law, earliest (1850), 39, 151, 172, 289;
amendment of (1866), 290.

British Museum, fiction policy, 322.

Brockton, Mass., reading-room in, 407.

Brougham, Lord, approves travelling libraries, 171.

Brown music collection, Boston, 327.

Brown, Samuel, founds Scottish itinerating libraries, 171.

Brown, Squire Sam, buys books for "Coon-Skin Library," 26.

Brown University, paper by Pres. Faunce, 343.

Brownwell's writing-school, attended by Franklin, 131.

Browsing commended, 346.

Burnham, T.O.P.H., book-collector, anecdote of, 313.

Burton, R., Historical Collections bought by Franklin, 131.

Business enterprise, library as a, 231.

Butler, Benj. F., his attack on the Boston Art School, 65.

Butler, James Davie,
address by, at Madison, Wis., 140;
biog. sketch of, 149.

Byrd, William, library of, 20.

Cabanne Branch, St. Louis, 446., 448.

California,
anecdotes of pioneers, 159;
school libraries in, 28.

Calvinism as encourager of reading, 80.

Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 63, 335, 465.

Carnegie, Andrew,
article by, 33;
sketch of, 33;
praised by Melvil Dewey, 75;
quoted, 433;
library gifts, 329.

Carondelet Branch, St. Louis, 445.

Cassell's National Library, praised, 205.

Castine, Me., library, 25.

Catalogues, uses of, 91, 405.

Censorship, do libraries exercise it? 323.

Chamberlain, Mellen, Supt. Boston Public Library, 280.

Chamberlain autograph collection, Boston, 327.

Charity, so-called, 36.

Charleston, S.C., Library Society, 24.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, 162.

Chelsea, Mass., address by Lowell at library-opening, 87.

Chetham, Humphrey, library founder, 353.

Children
in reading-rooms, 407;
reading of, 303;
work with,