;
Adams collection, 310.

Racine, Wis., school attendance in, 110.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 18.

Raphael, Italian artist, 166.

Ray, Dr. Isaac, quoted, 57.

Reade's "Griffith Gaunt" condemned by J.P. Quincy, 57.

Readers, classes of, 301.

Reading,
encouragement of, 346;
of librarians, 420.

Reading-rooms, 411;
as educators, 406.

Reclus, Elisee, quoted, 227.

Recreation,
_see_ ENTERTAINMENT.

Redwood Library, Newport, 25.

Reference work, 389.

Reform Act (British) of 1832, 455.

Relation of Free Public Libraries to the Community,
article by Herbert Putnam; in full, 315.

Relation of the State to the Public Library;
statement by Melvil Dewey; in full, 185.

Reservoir libraries, suggested by Pres. Eliot, 307.

"Revolving Library" of York and Kittery, Me., 25.

Rhode Island, school libraries in, 28.

Richard Sugden Library, Spencer, Mass., opening address, 101.

Ripley, George, anecdote of, 102.

Rousseau, "Confessions," favorite of Emerson, 95.

Ryerson Library Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
address at dedication, 425.

St. Louis,
fiction purchases in, 321;
no free public library in (1885), 233.

St. Louis Library School, 5.

St. Louis Public Library,
social centre work at, 443;
Library Board quoted, 340;
_Public Library_ Magazine quoted, 463.

St. Louis World's Fair, 333.

St. Paul, quoted, 460.

Salem, Mass., Social Library, 25.

San Francisco Public Library,
paper about, 231;
statistics (1885) 234.

Sanders, Minerva Amanda,
paper by, in full, 401;
biog. sketch of, 401.

Scholastic libraries in the colonies, 20.

School and library co-operation, 426.

School attendance, increase of, 110.

School District libraries, 27;
failure in N.Y. and Mich., 29;
described by Barber, 171.

School _versus_ library, 337.

Schools, free, opposed, 201.

Scotland, travelling libraries in, 171.

Scott's novels commended, 294.

Seaver, Mayor, advocates library in Boston, 53.

Seneca, quoted, 164.

Sentiment, part played by, in public institutions, 329.

Sever Hall, Harvard, 38.

Shakespeare, William, 163.

Shakesperiana in libraries, 327.

Sheffield Scientific School, 38.

Sibthorp, Col., opposes British library act, 290.

Simon, Jules, on education, 334.

Smith, _Capt_. John, booklover, 19.