spiration, in full, 419;
sketch of, 419.

Foster, William E.,
paper on securing community interest; in full, 193;
paper advocating public support of libraries in full, 215;
quoted, 314, 356.

Franklin, Benjamin,
autobiography quoted, 131;
Everett's gift of autobiography to Boston Public Library, 134;
anecdote of, 19;
founds Phila. Library Co., 21, 170;
education of, 130;
quoted, 22, 165.

Free access, adopted by Mrs. Sanders, in Pawtucket, R.I., 401, 405.

Free Libraries:
an argument against public support, by M.D. O'Brien, 201.

Free Public Library,
essay by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in full, 63;
article by Henry H. Barber, in full, 169;
evolution of, 30.

Freedom of thought, 455.

Freeport, Ill., Public Library, 387.

Freiberg, Saxony, tanning school, 382.

Froissant, read in rural N.Y., 51.

Function of a Town Library, paper by Josiah P. Quincy, in full, 55.

Future of the library, 453.

Georgetown, S.C., library in, 24.

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 18.

Gilbert, W.S. ("Iolanthe") quoted, 457.

Grant, Ulysses S., funeral of, 108.

Glasgow cathedral, anecdote of, 103.

Grand Rapids, Mich., address at dedication of building, 425.

Greece, smallness of, 372.

Green, Samuel Swett,
paper on duties of trustees, in full, 279;
on adaptation of libraries to constituencies, in full, 307;
address at library-openings, in full, 381;
pioneer in library educational work, 239;
praised by Col. Higginson, 66;
praised, 177.

Greenough, William W., Pres. Boston Public Library Board, 280.

Greenwood, Thomas, quoted, 211.

Griggs, Lilian (Barr Branch, St. Louis) quoted, 446.

Hale, Edw. Everett, quoted, 268.

Harper, William R., quoted, 335.

Harris Collection of poetry, 314.

Harris, William T., quoted, 335.

Harrison, William Henry, a founder of Vincennes Library, 27.

Hartford, Conn., addresses at opening of Wadsworth Athenaeum Library, 145.

Harvard College library, 20, 80.

Harvard University
donations, 38;
bequest of John Harvard, 90;
rule for trustee's terms, 272.

Haston Library. N. Brookfield, Mass., address at dedication, 381.

Hatboro, Pa., library in, 106.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, praised, 106.

Herschel, Sir John, quoted, 401.

Hewins, Caroline, praised, 148.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,
essay by, 63;