CATALOGUE OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES The Catalogue of Copyright Entries has always been printed and published to make up calendar-year volumes for the different classes of works catalogued. For the calendar year 1927 all parts of the catalogue have been printed, including the annual indexes. INCREASE IN COPYRIGHT FEES The act of Congress, approved May 23, 1928, amending the copyright act of March 4, 1909, makes the following increases in copyright fees, effective July 1, 1928: For registration of copyright for published works, including certificate-- $2.00 For registration of unpublished works, including certificate_ 1.00 (In this case the fee has not been increased.) For registration of a published photograph, without certificate_ 1.00 For every additional certificate of registration__-- 1.00 2.00 For recording notice of user or acquiescence under sec. 1(e) of the copyright act of 1909, for each notice of not more than five titles___ 1.00 For comparing copy of an assignment with record of such document in the copyright office and certifying the same under seal. 2.00 For registration of renewal of copyright_ 1.00 For recording transfer of proprietorship of copyrighted articles, for each title of book or other article___‒‒ 10 (This is in addition to the fee prescribed for recording the assignment relating to such article.) For search of copyright office records, indexes, or deposits. For each hour of time consumed__ 1.00 The act of Congress also increases the maximum prices for the complete yearly Catalogue of Copyright Entries from $5 to $10, and authorizes the register of copyrights to determine the prices to be charged for the respective parts of the catalogue within the above prescribed limits. Accordingly, the prices of the various parts of the catalogue, on or after July 1, 1928, will be as follows: $3.00 Part 1, Group 1, Books proper.... Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets and Maps- 3.00 Part 1, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions and Motion Pic Part 4, Works of Art, Photographs, Prints, and Pictorial (From the report of the chief of the division of accessions, Mr. BLANCHARD) Library, June 30, 30, 1928. Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets Contents of the made in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the 1927, and June Library, inclusive of the law library, at the close of the past two fiscal years were as follows: 1 For manuscripts, maps, music, and prints, see under those headings, infra. The accessions of books and pamphlets during the past two years, in detail, classified by source, were as follows: This includes 14,048 volumes in the East Asiatic collection received from the John Crerar Library. The gifts received during the year, considered as ex- GIFTS: pressions of good will, show the National Library to be rich in friends. Gifts from individuals and other unofficial sources numbered 18,921 items, a total somewhat smaller than that of last year but none the less gratifying. A few of these gifts will receive special mention as typical examples, but it must be obvious that the selection has been made more or less arbitrarily. Other gifts of equal importance might well be included if space permitted. Notable gifts of manuscripts, maps, music, and prints not mentioned here will be found described in detail in the reports of the several divisions directly concerned with their care. A notable addition to our collection of fifteenth century Incunabula. books from a donor who prefers to remain anonymous was a copy of a work by St. Birgitta, of Sweden [Quindecim collectae seu orationes, Venetiis, Thomas de Alexandria, 1481]. This is the only known copy, the same one that is described in Copinger, part 2, No. 1058. Miss Emily B. Mitchell, of Washington, D. C., among other gifts, presented the Library with an interesting edition of the Bible, “Oxford, printed by Mark Baskett, printer to the university" [1765?]. From the St. Adalbert's Literary Society of Trnava, Czechoslovakia, through the courtesy of Rev. Andrew M. Gajzik, we received a copy of the Bible in the Slovak language (V Trnave, 1913-1926). In this connection we also mention a gift from Mrs. Roswell Skeel, of New York City, of a copy (No. 20 of 100 signed copies) of "The Twenty-third Psalm. Illustrated by Paul Paschetto." Rome, Priv. printed, 1927. Bibles. low. From Col. John Bigelow, of Washington, D. C., we Col. John Bigereceived 12 photographic negatives of rare manuscript maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the originals of which are in French archives. George Blumen. Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal, of New York, have Mr. and Mrs. presented the Library with a copy of the de luxe edition that. in four volumes of the "Catalogue of the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, New York. Comp. by Stella Rubinstein-Bloch . . ." Paris, Éditions Albert Lévy, GIFTS: Rev. Edwin H. Walter P. Gard ner. Jesse Charles Emanuel Hertz. Dr. L. 0. Howard. 1926, 4 v. This set (No. 136 of 200 copies) is a catalogue of their collection of paintings of early schools and of sculpture, bronzes, ivories, enamels, majolica, stained glass, tapestries, furniture, etc., of the medieval and renaissance periods. An unusual gift was that from the Rev. Edwin H. Bookmyer, of Baltimore, Md., of a collection of gospel and church hymnals and reference books collected during Mr. Bookmyer's 15 years of association with the evangelist, the late Charles M. Alexander. The collection numbers 959 items (537 volumes, 210 pamphlets, and 212 pieces of music). At various times during the year we have welcomed gifts from Mr. Walter P. Gardner, of Jersey City, N. J., of numerous photostat copies of original Lafayette letters in his private collection. The history and development of the railway express system is strikingly shown in a unique gift from Mr. Jesse Charles Harraman, of this city. This collection, comprising 111 colored photographs, 4 maps, 21 forms, and a set of 8 postage stamps (all arranged on 23 large plates) was originally brought together by the donor for the WellsFargo Express Co., of San Francisco, as a traveling industrial exhibit. It was then exhibited in many western cities through the bureau of visual instruction of the extension division of the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Emanuel Hertz, of New York City, has presented us with 24 of his own addresses and articles on Abraham Lincoln, his "Abraham Lincoln, the seer," being represented by editions in nine different languages. Other gifts from Mr. Hertz are cited in the report of the acting chief of the manuscript division (infra). It was also through the interest of Mr. Hertz that the National Republican Club of New York City was prompted to send us copies of the collected editions of the "Addresses delivered at the Lincoln dinners of the Republican Club of the city of New York in response to the toast 'Abraham Lincoln,"" covering the years 1887-1927. Through Dr. L. O. Howard, of this city, there has come to us a collection of 64 volumes on whist, gathered to |