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52 METHODS OF SOCZAL REFORM.
Whittingham b Co., of the Chiswick Press. A French critic,
recently writing in Le Livre, the French Bibliographicat
Journal, ha9 commented on the luxurious paper and printing
of these remarkablo Reports. Rat it is more pertinent to our
immediate purpose to observe that the Reports are full of all
kinds of informstion bearing upon the advantages, purposes,
and management of Public Libraries. The Library Association
has also recently commenced the issue, through Messrs.
Triibner, of a monthly journal of proceedings which contains
much additional information. Those who are unable to consult
those more voluminous publications, but desire to know how a
Free Public Library is started, should procure Mr. W. E. A.
Axon's well-known little brochure, '' Hints on the Formation
of Small Libraries intended for Public Use." This tract was
prepared for the Co-operative Congress o€ 1869, has been
printed several times in a separate form at home and abroad,
and is to be found reprinted in Mr. Axon's cc Handbook of the
Public Libraries of Nanchester and Solford" (pp. 183-9).
Moro detailed information, including the text of the Free
Libraries Acts, is to be found in Mr. J. D. Mullins' tract
on " Free Libraries and News-rooms; their Formation and
Management," the third edition of which was lately on sale by
Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Go., at 36, Picadilly. The standard
work upon the subject is, of course, Mr. Edward Edwards'
crMemoirs of Libraries," published in two volumes in 1859, a,
work which has been of great service in promoting the cause
of the Libraries Acts.