In reformatories, where the effort is to cultivate the moral faculties,
the library is an essential part of the system. Forty-nine of them have
collections containing 51,466 books. In these institutions we have an
indication of what the library, and other moral forces like it, is worth
as an educator. Mr. Sanborn thinks that the proportion "of worthy
citizens trained up among the whole 24,000 in preventive and reformatory
schools would be as high as seventy-five per cent."

_Professional_ libraries are--

1. Law 135, with 330,353 volumes
2. Medical 64 " 159,045 "
3. Theological 86 " 633,369 "
4. Scientific 75 " 283,992 "

Here we have two surprises. One is that lawyers, with their interminable
"reports" falling from nearly every court in the country, and never
becoming really obsolete (a peculiarity that hardly any other
professional works enjoy), should have so few and such small libraries.
The reason probably lies in the assiduity with which each lawyer
collects the works needed in his line of practice. The other surprise is
that a profession so old and active as that of medicine should be so
poorly represented in books. The lawyers have an average of about 2,400
books in their libraries, and the largest collections in the list are
that of the Law Institute in New York, 20,000 volumes; Harvard School,
15,000; Social Law Library, Boston, 13,000; and Law Association of San
Francisco, 12,500. No other reaches 10,000 volumes, and in fact the
above deductions leave the others with about 2,000 volumes each. The
medical gentlemen are still worse off. There are in the Surgeon
General's office 40,000 volumes; Philadelphia College of Physicians,
18,753; Pennsylvania College of Physicians, 12,500; and New York
Hospital, 10,000; leaving an average of 1,300 volumes to each of the
other institutions. In these figures we have an indication of the
excellent work done by the Army Bureau at Washington. Its 40,000 bound
volumes are supplemented by 40,000 pamphlets, making a collection which
the profession greatly needed. The theologians seem to have attended as
energetically to the collection as to the making of books. In the last
division of this class belong the engineering, agricultural, mining,
botanical, military, and naval schools and societies, and they appear to
give considerable importance to their libraries. Though they are mostly
young institutions,