to December 1788.—This rare monthly was received lacking all plates and a number of pages. It has been completed with photostat reproductions from the copy in the Yale University library which is the only other copy listed as in the United States. Besides much biographical material the volume contains the following: Account of ceremonies to celebrate ratification of the Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, December 15, 1788; trial of Warren Hastings, Esq.; two original letters from Dr. Johnson to Mr. Baretti; Sir Isaac Newton's advice to a young gentleman going to travel; description of the monument erected to the memory of the celebrated poet, Mr. Thomas Grey, with a sketch of his character; original letter from Mr. Pope; thoughts by the celebrated Dean Swift; account of the North American Indians' barbarity to their captives.

Diamond Jubilee editions of Canadian newspapers.Special editions of 14 Canadian newspapers issued in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Confederation of the Canadian Provinces, 1867-1927, were received. These have been brought together in one volume with the exception of a few which belonged in our regular bound files.

Public Ledger and Evening Ledger, Philadelphia.— The Washington branch office of the Philadelphia Ledger presented to the Library a noteworthy file of 123 bound volumes. These are the Evening Ledger, January, 1923, to July, 1927, and the Public Ledger, October, 1921, to May, 1927.

Eighteenth century newspaper accessions include: Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser, Boston, April 6, May 11, June 1, November 23, 1780; Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Mass., September 22, October 20, November 3, 17, December 15, 29, 1790, January 4, March 16, 1791; Pennsylvania Mercury and Philadelphia PriceCurrent, September 10, 1791. Besides the above originals the division has secured the following photostat copies of important files: Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg (Alex. Purdie and John Dixon), March 7 to December 18, 1766, January 1 to December 24, 1767.

Leipzig, K. W. Hiersemann, 1926; Charles Georges Soulié: Histoire de l'art chinois de l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Payot, 1928; Robert Rattray Tatlock: Spanish art. London, B. T. Batsford, 1927; William Arnold Thorpe: English & Irish glass. London and Boston, The Medici society, 1927; Emil Waldmann: Die Kunst des realismus und des impressionismus im 19 jahrhundert. Berlin, Propyläen-verlag, 1927; Sir Christopher Wren: Hampton court palace, 1689-1702, original Wren drawings from the Sir John Soane's museum and All Souls collections. Oxford, Printed for the Wren society at the University press, 1927; Anders Leonard Zorn: Zorn's engraved work. Stockholm, A.-b. H. Bukowski's konthandel, 1920.

The collection of engravings and etchings has been increased by the purchase of representative works of Herschel C. Logan, Kathe Olshausen-Schönberger, Joseph Pennell, George T. Plowman, Anton Schutz, and Jacques Nicolas Tardieu.

Other purchases during the year were:

(a) Forty-one caricatures, in crayon, by Fabiano, of celebrated foreign musicians and composers.

(b) Thirty photostat reproductions of American cartoons in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

The most important gifts to the general collection have been:

(a) Collection of 11.005 printers' and publishers' marks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; the countries represented are Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Scandinavia, former Austria-Hungary, (including Czechoslovakia, Transylvania, Yugoslavia, and part of Poland). Spain and Portugal, Switzerland, Italy and France, from Dr. and Mrs. Otto H. F. Vollbehr. Dr. Vollbehr is the well-known book collector of Berlin, Germany.

(b) Seven drypoints of female figures, from the artist, Mr. Frank M. Armington, Paris, France.

(c) Thirteen etchings of English and French public buildings and landscapes, from the artist, Mrs. Caroline Armington, Paris, France.

(d) Three hundred and one photographs: Portraits, illustrations of current events and views of foreign countries, from Messrs. Underwood & Underwood, Washington, D. C.

(e) Forty-eight bookplates from the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, Washington, D. C.

(f) Twenty-two World War Medals, in bronze, from Capt. Theodore Bitterman, Washington, D. C.

(g) One hundred and sixty-seven portraits; Civil War officers (110) and early residents of Portland, Oregon (57), from Mr. Frederick Lockley, Portland, Oregon.

(h) One hundred and fifty-six photographic views of American and foreign cities, from Mr. C. W. Richmond, Washington, D. C. (i) Fifty-three Civil War views and portraits of Lincoln, from Miss Helen Nicolay, Washington, D. C.

(j) Thirty-six photographs of the Mississippi River flood (1927), from Mr. Felix J. Koch, Cincinnati, Ohio.

(k) One hundred and ninety-eight photographs of the Louisiana flood (1927), from Gov. James M. Parker, Washington, D. C., and 380 photographs of the Mississippi River flood (1927), from Senator W. L. Jones, Washington, D. C. .

(1) One hundred and forty-nine portraits of prominent Americans, from Mr. F. E. Brasch, Smithsonian division, Library of Congress.

(m) Thirty-six portraits of William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill "), from Mrs. Sherman Miles, Washington, D. C.

(n) Thirty-one lithographs from the artist members of the Senefelder Club, of London, England.

(0) Fifty-seven framed engravings and lithographs, mostly English colored engravings of the late eighteenth century, and the works of Calame, the well-known Swiss lithographer, from Miss Annie Hegeman, Washington, D. C.

(p) Eight hundred and twenty-two portraits, historical subjects, views of American and foreign cities, etc., from Mr. Castelman Beatty, Baltimore, Md.

The total increase in the general collection of prints has been:

The following exhibitions have been installed during the year:

1. Gutenberg Memorial Exhibition in connection with the presentation of a valuable portrait, in oil, of Johann Gutenberg (1397?-1468) presented by Gabriel Wells, Esq., of New York City

2. Incunabula from the Otto H. F. Vollbehr collection of Berlin, lent by the owner.

3. European printers' and publishers' marks (fifteenth to the nineteenth century) from the Otto H. F. Vollbehr collection of Berlin, lent by the owner (later becoming the property of the Library of Congress in the presentation of a collection of 11,005 printers' and publishers' marks by Dr. and Mrs. Otto H. F. Vollbehr) _.

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4. Collection of lithographs by members of the Senefelder Club, of London, England__

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5. Etchings by Miss Gabrielle de Veaux Clements, of Baltimore, Md., lent by the artist_

6. Contemporary French Prints under the auspices of the Association Française d'Expansion et d'Échanges Artistiques of Paris, and the American Federation of Arts of Washington

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The exhibitions of permanent character, or those having continued interest, were kept in place, especially the Joseph Pennell Memorial Exhibition (627 items), supplemented by 609 items from the Whistleriana collection, in the Library of Congress, as exhibited in the southwest pavilion, donated by Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell.

The outstanding gifts during the year included:

(a) A unique and valuable portrait of Johann Gutenberg (1397?-1468) presented by Gabriel Wells, Esq., of New York City, N. Y. The painting is variously attributed to an unknown painter of the middle of the eighteenth century and by other authorities to Nicolaus Müller in 1824. Canvas measurement, width, 36 inches; height, 46 inches. It is permanently located in the southwest pavilion of the print division.

The inventor of printing is shown standing in a room, behind a table, about to sign a document; back of him, on a shelf, are some of the books which he published; on the wall are portraits (in profile) of Gutenberg, Fust, and Schöffer; also his family's coat of arms; before him, on a table, are a model of a printing press, manuscripts, engravings, and impressions from large size type. He is clad in a gold-braided cloak and wears a lace collar, with a gold chain (suspending a medallic portrait) around his neck; left hand on hilt of a sword.

While there is no authentic portrait of Gutenberg, the Strasbourg portrait has been accepted as the most typical. Fortunately a copy of this painting was made and presented to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz before the original was destroyed in the siege of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War.