Recent Acquisitions to the Library.

The Gore Hall Library has lately received 600 dissertations from the universities of Leipzig, Munich, Greifslau, Jena, Breslau, and Konigsberg. Among recent gifts are six copies of the latest volume of "The History of the United States," by the author, Mr. J. F. Rhodes, of Boston, and 59 volumes of recent American poetry, by Mr. Ferris Greenslet, of Cambridge. Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, has given to the Gore Hall Library, as well as to the libraries of the French Department and of the Union, sets of the complete works of Professor Funk-Brentano, who is to lecture soon before the "Alliance Francaise" in Boston.

During the last year over 22,000 volumes have been added to the Library, the largest acquisition that has ever been made in one year. On October 1 the number of volumes in the Gore Hall Library was 438,000, the total number in all the libraries of the University being 675,000.