The Memorial History of Boston, Including the Present County of Suffolk.-1630 to 1880. In Four Volumes, quarto, with more than 500 Illustrations by famous artists and engravers, all made for this work. Vol. I. is now ready; the others will follow at intervals of a few months. A group of seventy eminent and representative writers have been united to tell the story of Boston in all its phases, in as many characteristic articles. This work may be considered the first instance where a single historical theme has been compassed with unity of purpose and diversity of treatment, and this is accomplished by combining the labors of a large number of specialists. Co-operation in historical writing has heretofore consisted in the grouping together of distinct contributions, with perhaps no other tie than a geographical relation, or even a chance association; and the writers have been selected for their general literary proficiency. The present result is quite different. A subject of more historical interest than attaches to any other locality on this continent has drawn to it for many years special investigators, who have discovered many aspects to observe and much lore to assimilate. Local, historical, and antiquarian societies have fostered this study, and it has become known that certain phases of Boston's history have found their best exponents in certain students of them. Their names embrace, almost without exception, writers of local eminence, and some of far wider repute. To bring about a unity of result in connection with so many writers, the work required the superintendence of an editor in sympathy with the plan and in harmony with its collaborators. Such an editor was found in Mr. JUSTIN WINSOR, Librarian of Harvard University, to whose rare judgment and discrimination the work owes much of its value and symmetry. 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Prepared by the Library Bureau, 32 Hawley St., Boston. The superior figures tell the exact place on the page, the first figure which column, the second how far down The colon after an initial of a given name, means that it is the most common name, e.g. A: means Augustus; By omission of many capitals, proper names and capitalized words are made more prominent. Titles of periodicals in italics, are those quoted or referred to in the Bibliografy. By free use of abbreviations, mostly self explanatory, more references are given in the same space, and as The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this. A., E. C., lib. humor, 22928. Abbotsford lib., 19925. Academies, need lib., 23623. Access to shelves. See Open. Advocates' lib. See Faculty. Ages of borrowers, 15623. Airdrie, Act in, 25714. Alaska, pubs. on, 11919. Alcott, A. B., Mystic lib., 29313. Alexandria, lib. of, 26711. Alger, H., jr., stories of, 14118. Am. librns, praised, 5522. 14. Am. libs. and librns, (Walford) 1328, Am. revolving book-case, 27618. Ames lib. asso., 14612. Anchor device, 20315. Annuitants, longevity of, 6812. Anon. and pseud. lit. of Gt. Britain, Allen, E: G., before rebinding, 214; Apprentices in libs., 26414. ed. note, 20814. Alleyn papers, catlg. of, 19216. Aloha:, adv., 162. Alphabetical arrangement on shelves, Alphabeting catlg. cards, (Cook, Dui) Alphabetization, 27314. Amherst, Mass., pub. lib., rep., 9121. Am. and Foreign Mag. Depot, adv., Apprentices' lib., N. Y., 30912; bulle- Arabic numerals, 33212. Archibald, F. A., lib. key, 28423, adv., Architect and librn, 26318, 27. Arlia, C., Voc. bibliog., 32723. Arnold, E., Light of Asia, adv., 95. Arnold, G: F:, 20824; German libs. Ashbee, E. W., list on longevity of Assurbanipal, lib. of, 26713. Astor lib., 4322, 11613, 30914; report on Astronomical bibliog., 8629. Athenæum, quoted, 5718, 8515, 8716, 19, Auction, tracing rare books sold at, Austria, gen. notes, 58; lib. statistics, |