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Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter, January 30, 1897, under Act of July 16, 1894.

GEORGE BRINTON MCCLELLAN, Mayor of the City of New York, ex officio.
EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller of the City of New York, ex officio.
CHARLES V. FORNES, President of the Board of Aldermen, ex officio.

OFFICERS

President, Hon. JOHN BIGELOW, LL.D.

First Vice-President, Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D., LL.D.

Second Vice-President, JOHN S. KENNEDY, Esq.

Secretary, CHARLES HOWLAND RUSSELL, Esq., 40 Lafayette Place.
Treasurer, EDWARD KING, Esq., Union Trust Company, 80 Broadway.
Director, Dr. JOHN S. BILLINGS, 40 Lafayette Place.

BRANCHES-REFERENCE

Lafayette Place, 40. (ASTOR.)

Fifth Avenue, 890. (LENOX.)

CIRCULATION

MANHATTAN.

East Broadway, 31. (CHATHAM SQUARE.)

East Broadway, 197. (Educational Alliance Building.)
Eldridge Street, 184. (University Settlement Building.)
Bond Street, 49. Near the Bowery.

8th Street. 135 Second Avenue. (OTTENDORFER.)

10th Street, 331 East.

13th Street, 251 West.

23d Street, 130 West. 34th Street, 215 East.

42d Street, 226 West.

59th Street, 113 East.

65th Street, 116 West.

76th Street, 538 East.

(TOMPKINS SQUARE.)

Near 8th Avenue. (JACKSON SQUARE.)
Near 6th Avenue. (MUHLENBERG.)
Between 2d and 3d Avenues.

Near 7th Avenue. (GEORGE BRUCE. Dept. headquarters.)
Near Lexington Avenue.

Near Broadway. (RIVERSIDE.)

79th Street, 222-224 East. Near 3d Avenue. (YORKVILLE.)

82d Street. 2279 Broadway. (ST. AGNES.)

100th Street, 206 West.

91st Street, 121 West. Bet. Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. (BLIND LIBRARY.) Near Broadway. (BLOOMINGDALE. TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.) Near 3d Avenue. (AGUILAR.) (HARLEM LIBRARY BRANCH.) Near 3d Avenue.

110th Street, 174 East. 123d Street, 32 West. 125th Street, 224 East.

156th Street, 922 St. Nicholas Avenue. (WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.)

RICHMOND.

TOTTENVILLE. Amboy Road, near Prospect Avenue.

During the month of November there were received at the Library, by purchase, 838 volumes and 393 pamphlets; by gift, 2,532 volumes and 4,062 pamphlets; and by exchange, 181 volumes and 1,205 pamphlets, making a total of 3,551 volumes and 5,660 pamphlets.

There were catalogued 2,827 volumes and 3,505 pamphlets, for which were written 9,554 cards, in addition to which 3,493 slips were written for, and 14,952 cards received from, the copying machine.

The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Exhibition at the Lenox, during the month:

Number of visitors to Print Exhibition, etc.. 2,840

CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT.

The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Wagner's "The Simple Life," Beveridge's "The Russian Advance," and Bryce's "American Commonwealth"; (adult fiction): Thurston's "The Masquerader," Parker's "A Ladder of Swords," and Crawford's "Whosoever Shall Offend"; (juvenile fiction): Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," Dodgson's "Alice in Wonderland," and Barbour's "On Your Mark."