The British Museum Beading - Room. By R. A. Peddie. (Grafton and
Co.)—Who cannot sympathize with the sensation of help.. lessness with which a reader first passes through the glass doors into the great reading-room at the British Museum ? The radiating tables strike him as being like some gigantic spider's web with the superintendent sitting spider-like in the middle. This feeling of dismay is not diminished when he comes to closer quarters with his work and is confronted with the perplexities of the general catalogue, the special catalogues, and the other intri- cate sign-posts to knowledge which the administration have set up for his benefit. Such a nervous beginner will find his diffi- culties and fears cleared away by Mr. Peddie's handbook. In a few short chapters it will give him all the practical information and advice that lie can desire, and will enable him to profit from the resources of the library with the least possible waste of energy.
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