23 DECEMBER 1916, Page 21

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, for 1916

(Longman and Co., Is.) contains, besides several notable lectures, a further account of the progress made in collecting books for the Uni- versity of Louvain, to replace the great library which the Germans wantonly destroyed. The John Rylands Library is housing the volumes, already eight thousand in number. The Bulletin offers suggestions as to the kind of books needed, and prints a fourth list, of nearly fifty pages, of the valuable works that have been given. Those who have inherited scholars' libraries which they do not use should remember that Louvain will need such books after the war.