, 232.

New England town meetings praised, 108.

New Englanders, practicality of, 90.

New Hampshire
library law, 172;
mandatory, 316;
library growth in, 174.

New Jersey, school libraries in, 28.

New Orleans, wishes no free library, 233.

New York City, no free public library in (1885), 233.

New York Free Circulating Library;
address in its favor by Grover Cleveland; in full, 139.

New York Public Library, 139.

New York Society Library, 25.

New York State,
libraries in, 27;
failure of district libraries, 29;
public libraries department, 191;
travelling libraries in, 174, 191.

Newburyport, Mass., library statistics (1885), 234.

Newcastle-on-Tyne library, 209.

Newport, R.I., library at, 25.

News, triviality of, 93.

Newspapers
as aids to libraries, 261;
influence of, 186, 415.

Nitti, quoted, 461.

_North American Review_, quoted, 33.

North Brookfield, Mass., opening address at Haston Library, 381.

Northwest Territory, ordinance of 1787, 244.

Norwich, Eng., library report quoted, 211.

Notes, making of, on books, 429.

Objections to libraries classified, 291.

O'Brien, M.D.,
argument against public support of libraries; in full, 201;
answered by W.E. Foster, 215.

Ohio, school libraries in, 28.

_Old and New_, paper quoted from, 55.

Olneyville, R.I., reading room in, 408.

Oregon, school libraries in, 28.

Organization of trustees, 274.

Osborne, Mr., gift to Bellevue Hospital, N.Y., 42.

Osborne, _Mrs_. C.J., Yale donor, 38.

Packer, Asa, bequest, 37.

Page, Father, N.Y. library pioneer, 172.

Palmer, Sir Roundell, opposes British library act, 290.

Paradise Lost, J.Q. Adams on, 294.

Parks as donations, 42.

Peabody Library, Baltimore, 30.

Peabody Museum, Harvard, 38.

Penn, William, booklover, 19.

Pennsylvania Library Club, paper reprinted, 67.

Pennsylvania University Library, address at dedication; in full, 365.

"Peoples University," library as the, 126.

Peoria, Ill., Mercantile Library, 179.

Periodicals, use of, 356.

Perkins, Frederic Beecher,
paper given in full, 231;
biog. sketch of, 231;
quoted, 274.

Peterboro, N.H., free library, 172.

Philadelphia Centennial, effects of, 145.

Philadelphia, no public library in (1885), 233.

Philadelphia Liby Co., founded by F