Part 52

Billings, Dr. John Shaw, article on public libraries, in full, 329; biog. sketch of, 329; pioneer in interlibrary work, 385.

Birge, Edward Asahel, address at Madison, in full, 109; sketch of, 109.

Birmingham (Eng.) Free Library, 41, 175, 207.

Blackpool Free Library report, quoted, 206.

Blair, Rev. James, library of, 20.

Boards of Trustees; general editorial introduction, 265. See also TRUSTEES.

Bodleian Library, rule of, 353.

Boers, characterized, 227.

Bolton (Eng.) Free Library founded, 290.

Book Committee of library board, 275.

Book-readers, who are? 222.

Book-selection, 351.

Books and Life, address by Edward A. Birge; in full, 109.

Books and the Public Library, address by James Russell Lowell, in full, 87.

Books, cheapness of, 204.

Booklovers among the colonists, 19.

Boston Art Museum, 313.

Boston Common Council advocates library, 53.

Boston, libraries in, 80.

Boston Public Library; address at its dedication, by Edw. Everett, 127.

Boston Public Library, 280, 317; children in, 408; its building, 81; gifts to, 153; facilities of, 327; fiction purchases in, 321; praised, 151; George Ticknor on, 50; statistics in 1885, 234.

Bowditch mathematical collection, Boston, 327.

Bradford, Wm., booklover, 19.

Brashear, John, 37.

Bright, John, quoted, 41.

Bristol, Eng., library report quoted, 208.

British education acts, 202; library law, earliest (1850), 39, 151, 172, 289; amendment of (1866), 290.

British Museum, fiction policy, 322.