EXPLANATION. It must not be supposed that this is a catalogue of the Association Library; five volumes, such as this, would be required to embrace the entire Library. The Reference Departments of the Library, at 56th Street and at the 23d Street building, are made up of those general works which are most helpful to the seeker for information, no matter what his line of investigation may be, while the main Library at 56th Street is exceptionally well supplied with books relating to the fine arts, mechanics, and natural science. The resources of these collections are made available by manuscript catalogues at each Library. The present volume quite fully covers the books in the Circulating Department, which contains about 15,000 volumes. Each book is entered 1. Under the author's name, or well-known assumed name. 2. Under the subject, or various subjects treated in the book. 3. Under the title always in fiction, and in other cases when the title is one likely to be remembered, or suggestive of the contents. The arrangement is alphabetical, and not having been prepared for specialists, subjects are to be found under their popular form, viz.: Birds, not Ornithology, Insects, not Entomology, with reference from the technical form to that adopted. Lest some might expect too much of this catalogue, attention should be called to the fact that the Circulating Department is composed of books selected from the general collection, which was not brought together with the intention of forming a circulating library. One may be surprised that a certain well-known work is not found in the catalogue, when it is probably in the Reference Library, but in a form too large, or too costly to circulate. Weakness may therefore be noticed which, we trust, may be corrected by supplements hereafter to be issued announcing needed additions. The typographical work of this volume being that of a linotype machine, is subject to certain limitations. It has been impossible to make use of any diacritical marks in the black-faced type, which may sometimes be misleading. The machine is, however, provided with the most commonly used marks and accents in the Roman type, but some of the foreign languages call for peculiar marks, which could not be supplied. SILAS H. BERRY, 317 WEST 56TH STREET, FEBRUARY, 1901. Librarian. BRANCHES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 1-TWENTY-THIRD STREET: No. 52 East Twenty-third Street, corner Fourth Avenue. Telephone, 18th Street 789. 2-WEST SIDE: No. 318 West Fifty-seventh Street, near Eighth Avenue. Telephone, Columbus 4. 3-HARLEM: No. 5 West 125th Street. Telephone, Harlem 1089. 4-EAST SIDE: No. 158 East Eighty-seventh Street. Telephone, 79th Street 1100. 5-YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE: No. 222 Bowery, between Prince and Spring Streets. Telephone, Spring 1983. 6-WASHINGTON HEIGHTS: No. 531 West 155th Street. 7-STUDENTS' BRANCH: ("Students' Club" or "The Intercollegiate"), No. 129 Lexington Avenue. 8-SECOND AVENUE: No. 142 Second Avenue. Telephone, 18th Street 908. 9-FRENCH: No. 49 West Twenty-fourth Street. 10-ARMY: Governor's Island, Liberty Island, and Fort Wadsworth. 11-COLORED MEN'S: 132 West 53d Street. 12-BOWERY: No. 153 Bowery, corner Broome Street. Telephone, Spring 659. FOR RAILROAD MEN: 13-No. 361 Madison Avenue, corner Forty-fifth Street. Telephone, 38th Street 727. 14-West Seventy-second Street, corner Eleventh Avenue. 15-Melrose Junction, Yards, Car 238. 16-New Durham, Railroad Men's Building. GENERAL OFFICE: No. 3 West Twenty-ninth Street. |