Smoking in libraries, 122.

Social Centre,
library as a, 433, 439;
in St. Louis, 443.

Social consciousness, growth of, 13.

Social Libraries,
foundation of, 170;
in Salem, Mass., 25.

Social meetings in a library, 447.

Socialism opposed, 201.

Socialization, trend toward, 15.

Society Library, N.Y. City, 25.

Some Popular Objections to Public Libraries,
paper by William F. Poole, in full, 287.

Soule, Charles Carroll,
paper by, 271;
sketch of, 271.

South Carolina, colonial libraries in, 24.

Southey, Robert, quoted, 92.

Southport, Eng., free library, 208.

Spencer, Herbert,
opposes free education, 201;
opposes free libraries, 178, 292;
quoted, 460.

Spencer, Mass., Sugden Library, 101.

Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 97.

Spofford, A.R., quoted, 57.

Springer Hall, Cincinnati, 45.

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

_Springfield Republican_, paper from, 257.

Stages of libraries, six, 17.

Stanford, Leland, bequest, 37.

Statistics of American libraries
(1876), 289;
(1885), 234.

Stead, William T., quoted, 456.

Stearns, Lutie E., paper on social centres, in full, 439.

Stevens Point Library, 123.

Story, Chief Justice, quoted, 150.

Street, Augustus, Yale donor, 38.

Subscription libraries, 21.

Sugden, Richard,
gives library to Spencer, Mass., 101;
sketch of, 102.

Sunday opening, Allegheny parks, 43.

Swimming pools as gifts, 46.

Tarbell, Ida, quoted, 446.

Tarbell, M. Anna, paper by, in full, 257.

Tarde, Gabriel, quoted, 461.

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

Taxation, dread of, 291;
for library support, 243, 330;
use for fiction circulation opposed, 60.

Taylor, Winifred Louise, paper by, in full, 387;
biog. sketch of, 387.

Teacher, librarian as a, 395.

Teaching, N.Y. investigation of, 77.

Technical rooms
in libraries, 121;
use in libraries, 238.

Technical training, growth of, 110.

Term of office of trustees, 272.

Thaw, William, Pittsburgh donor, 37.

Ticknor, George,
extract from "Life and Letters" given at length, 49;
sketch of, 49;
letter to Edward Everett, 176.

Ticknor Spanish collection, Boston 327.

Tilden, Samuel J.,
bequest, 169;
will-contest, 34.

Tom Sawyer's fence, 422.

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