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During the month of February there were received at the Library by purchase, 776 volumes and 698 pamphlets; by gift, 4,149 volumes and 3,232 pamphlets; and by exchange, 3 volumes and 1 pamphlet, making a total of 4,928 volumes and 3,931 pamphlets. There were catalogued 2,758 volumes and 1,158 pamphlets; the number of cards written was 6,668, and of slips for the copying machine 1,803; from the latter were received 13,734 cards. The following table shows the number of readers, and the number of volumes consulted, in both the Astor and Lenox Branches of the Library, also the number of visitors to the Print Exhibition at the Lenox during the month: Circulation Department. The most popular books of the month were (in non-fiction): Ibsen's Plays, Longfellow's Poems, Monroe's "History of Education"; (adult fiction): Chambers's "Fighting Chance," McCutcheon's "Jane Cable," Harrison's "The Far Horizon"; (juvenile fiction): Kipling's "Puck of Pook's Hill," Dunn's "From Atlanta to the Sea," Eggleston's " Hoosier School Boy." CIRCULATION STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY. BRANCHES. MANHATTAN. East Broadway, 197 Rtvington Street, 61 Le Roy Street, 66 Bond Street, 49 8th Street. 135 Second Avenue 10th Street, 331 East 13th Street, 251 West 22d Street, 230 East 23d Street, 209 West 34th Street, 215 East 40th Street, 501 West 42d Street, 226 West 50th Street, 123 East 51st Street, 463 West 59th Street, 113 East 67th Street, 328 East 69th Street. 190 Amsterdam Avenue Travelling Libraries 77th Street. 1465 Avenue A 79th Street, 222 East 81st Street. 444 Amsterdam Avenue Blind Library 96th Street, 112 East 100th Street, 206 West 110th Street, 174 East 123d Street, 32 West 125th Street, 224 East 135th Street, 103 West 145th Street, 503 West 156th Street. 922 St. Nicholas Avenue BRONX. 140th Street and Alexander Avenue.. 176th Street and Washington Avenue Kingsbridge Avenue, 2933 RICHMOND. Port Richmond Totals |