The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol . XIII.,
Part IL (Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; and Cambridge University Press. $2.)—This pleasant volume, wholly unconnected.with politics, testifies in its quiet way to the essential unity of the English-speaking peoples. Book-lovers bare and book-lovers in America are concerned with the same literature and the same problems. The first paper, on " Biblio- graphical Ghosts," by Mr. G. W. Cole, of New York, sets right several errors about the dates of seventeenth-century books, and thus illustrates the danger of copying slavishly even from reputable scholars like Watt or Herbert without verifying their references- Mr- Richardson, thelibra,rian of Princeton, discusses the difficulty of forming and arranging a conaprehensivelbrary of books and papers about the war. Dr. Mass-Arnolt, of the Boston Library, protests against the wealthy collector's bad habit of destroying the book-plates and other evidences of former ownership in the books that he buys and has rebound ; he gives some good instances of the value and interest of such information. Lastly, there is a warm tribute to Mr. Madan, who recently resigned the office of Bodley's librarian.
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