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PUBLISHED BY THE and discussions of the technical problems of SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION the special library, especially those of classi- Monthly except July and August. ficdtion and ~ndexingant1 of terminology. The Editorial nnd Publlcatlon Oflce, State Llbrary, many devices which have been originated to Indiuuapolls, Ind. meet the special needs of different libraries Subscrlptlons, 03 Broad street, Boston, Mnss. will be brought out and deductions drawn from Entered at the Postomce nt Indlanupolls, Ind., the varying methods. as second-class matter. Two committe reports of unusual interest will Subscription.. . .$2.00 a year (10 numbers) be presented and discussed fully, one on the Single copies ...... -26 cents collection and use of clippings and one on the training of special librarians. These reports Preddent ...... D. N. Uandy will summarize the methods in vogue and will Iuaurance Llbrary Association, Boston Mnes. atiempt to set forth some general and special VlcePresldent ...... R. H. ohn net on Bureau of Rnllaay Economlce, Wnshlngton,. D. C. conclusions based upon common experience. Becretury-Treasnrer ...... Guy E. Marlou Of the place of meeting, the Bulletin of the Llbrary, Arthur D. Little, Inc., 93 Broad St. A. L. A. says: EXECUTIVE BOARD "The Hotel Kaaterskill stands in a very beau- Presldent, Vlce-Prealdent, Secretary-Treasurer, tiful location on the top of Kaaterskill Moun- C. E Norman, People's Oaa Light and Coke tain, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above the Co., Chlcago ; and Miss Florence Spencer, Na- tlonal Cit Bank, New York Clty. sea. From the piazza the visitor has an un- Mrnaglng &itor of Elpeclal Llbrarles :-John A. obstructed panorama, stretching across the Hud- Lapp, gtate Llbrary, Indlana olle, Iud. son River and Valley and the hills of New Arslstant Edltor. Ethel ~lelani State Llbrar~.-. Indlanc~polle,ind. , covering a sweep of over ninety CONTRIBUTING lDITORS miles. The hotel is advertised as the largest F. N. Morton Unlted Gas Improvement Co., mountain hotel in the world, having a capacity ~hlladelphln: for between one thousand and twelve hundred H. H. B. Meyer, Library of Congress. guests, the exact numbel accornrnodated de- D. N. Handy, Insurance Llbrary Assoclatlon, pending, of course, on how many desire to room alone. The A. L. A. will have the ab- Annual Convention ...... 53 solutely exclusive use of the entire hotel dur- Library of the School of Social Workers 54 ing the whole time of the cor~ference Having Uniform Systems of Accounts...... 66 all delegates in one hotel is an important fea- Recall of Judicial Decisions...... 59 ture and always brings about easier and more Current References ...... 60 frequent personal confcrcnces and a general Bibliographies ...... 64 unity which is difficult to obtain where delc- Rotea and Events...... 67 gates ere housed under a number of separate roofs. Any possible ovelflow will be accomrno- dated at a smaller hotel, a mile from the SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Kaaterskill, conveyance hack and forth being ANNUAL CONVENTION provided. It is not likely, however, that there The annual convention of the Special Li- will be more applications than the headquar- braries Association will be held at the Kaater- ters hotel can comfort;tbly handle. There are skill Hotel in the Catskills, New York, during 700 rooms in the Kaaterskill and Annex, 100 the week of June 23-2'8, 1913. This meeting of whicl~have private baths. The dining room will be in conjunction with the A. L. A, and has a seating capacity for 1,200 people. In affiliated organizations. the way of amusements the management calls Mr. H. H. Johnston of the Bureau of Rail- attention to excellent golf links, boating and way economics is cha~rman of the committee fishing in a small mountain lake near by, ten- of the A. L A. in charge of the program and nis, bowling, driving and motoring, mountain has tentatively worked out a program which climbing, ctc. A new ball room floor was laid bids fair to'be one of the strongest and most in 1912. Meeting halls are adequate to ac- interesting yet presented by ' the association. commodate the general sessions, section meet- The first meeting will be devoted to a re- ings and those of the four affiliated organiza- view of the developments in the special li- tions." brary field and to papers and discussions on The library meetings promise to be the larg- the value of special libraries to those who est in the history of the A. L. A., and of the pay for them and ,the relation of the special Special libraries association and others as well. !D the general library. Reservation for room9 at the Kaaterskill Ho- A second sesssion will be devoted to papers tel should be made early. Applications should 54 SPECIAL LIBRARIES be addressed to Harrison S. Downs, Berkeley countries, but also including many valuable Lyceum, 19-21 W. 44th Street, . books and single pamphlets. It already con- The rates for library week are as follows: stitutes one of the most important libraries of Two persons in double room without pri- this sort in the country. vate bath, $3.00 per day, each. "The Library is the property of Simmons Two persolis in double room with private College, and is administered under the direc- bath, $4.50 per day, each. tion of a Council, which at present consists of One pelson in single room without private Henry Lefavour, Charles W. Birtwell, Mar- bath, $1.00 per day. garet Curtis; Mary Lee Hale, James Hardy One person in room with private bath, $6.00 Ropes!' per day. In order to try to carry out some of the Travel arrangements are being made for a promises held out in this circular, my assist- Boston party, a Western party and a party ant and I arrived the end of September and from Washington, Philadelphia and New York. set to work as soon as the workmen, who still The post conference trip is planned for the had possession of the premises, transforming Adirondasks. Detailed information will be the building of the New England historic found in tlie A. L. A. Bulletins or may be ob- genealogical society into the building of the tained from Mr. George B. Utley, Secretary of School for social workers, could be driven out. A. L. A., 78 E. Wash Street, Chicago. The first thing we had to do was to take Index and Directory of the 8. L. A. over the collection of the 25,000, more or less, A list of members of the Special libraries books, pamphlets, periodicals and reports (I association' and an index of the material al- mention them in inverse order to their num- ready published was issued as the January, ber and importance), which were brought to 1913 number of Special Libraries. This con- us from the Children's aid society, in 200 or stitutes a handbook of information about the more bookcases. The sorting out and classi- scope and activities of the association and is fying, to say nothing of the dusting of this a record of substantial progress. mass of material, has been no small task, as Criticisms have been made because the in- the arrangement was somewhat chaotic. The dex part was not issued as a separate, so as newer material had been put into the cases to facilitate binding. It is hardly likely that without any system at all, as the Children's special librarians will find this a serious ob- aid society had had no one for more than a stacle to its effective use, but for those who year to look after its library, and never has desire an extra copy for binding purposes, the it had the full time services of any one. It is secretary or the managing editor will furnish surprising what they had been able to do un- a copy on request. der these limitations. The scheme used in the older portions was a geographical one, with an alphabetical arrangement of 600 or more THE LIBRARY OP THE SCHOOL OF SOOIAL books. As a preliminary, therefore, we had to WORKERS collect together the reports, etc., which be- longed together, and we frequently found them Address by Miss Ketuham, Librarian at the in three or four different places, and then to 8. L. A., Boston, Jan. 1, 1813. tie them up with strong cord, this being our I cannot tell you about the Social service inexpensive system of binding, so that they library better than by reading a sort of pros- should not get scattered again. pectus that was gotten out last spring: '(In Next came the question of what scheme of connection with the School for social workers, classification to use, and I finally decided upon in its new quarters at 18 Somerset Street, Bos- the Library of Congress schedules. First, be- ton, it is proposed to maintain a special Social cause I was told at the School of philanthropy service library. Such a library is necessary in library in New York that they had great diffi- the training and investigation carried on by the culty in adapting even the revised Dewey deci- School for social workers; and, under the care mal classification to their material, and that of a competent librarian, is also capable of at that time they thought they should have to rendering direct and invaluable service to the give it up altogether;' and second, because I great body of social workers-both professional was strongly advised to use the Library of and volunteer-in Boston and the suburbs, and Congress schedules in this special library by through them to contribute to efficiency, sound the head of the New York state library, Mr. judgment, and wise progress in every field of Wyer, dnd by the instructor in cataloguing in philanthropic work. The resources of the li- the New York public library schnol. On the brary, and the aid of the librarian's knowledge whole, I think these schemes have worked very and advice, will be freely extended to all who well, though with all their minuteness I have wish to make use of it. sometimes had to amplify them,.particularly in "A nucleus for the Library has been pro- the philanthropy sections. The ~ndex,especial- vided by the gift from the Boston children's ly to the volume on the social sciences, is ex- aid society of the collection ivhich it has gath- cellent. ered in tlie past twenty years. That contains After we had succeeded in getting the Chil- upwards of 25,000 books and pamphlets, con- dren's aid society collection on the shelves in sisting largely 'of sets of reports of philanthro- something approacliing correct order, we were pic agencies in the and foreign confronted with our second piece of work, SPECIAL LIBRARIES

which was the acquisition of the 5,000 or more etc., of the philanthropic agencies of which I books, pamphlets and reports constituting the have spoken, such as Proceedings of the Nation- Library of the School for social workers. al conference of charities and corrections (one Here we very naturally found many duplicates complete file and a second nearly complete of the Children's aid society material, and one), State conferences, State boards of charity what to do with them is one of our problems reports, City departments of charity reports, at the present moment. Some of the duplicates Poor law conferences, reports of the Royal we have to keep, as they are needed by the commission on the poor laws, and innumerable students for their school work, but we still reports of associated charities, children's aid have a good many to dispose of. societies, children's homes, boy's clubs, orphan Besides the collection irom the Children's asyluma, working girls' homes, social settle- aid society and the school, we have received ments, reformatories, prisons, proceedings of several minor gifts from individuals, all of the American prison association, institutiolls which have, Ilowever, fitted in with our needs. for the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the defective, The rema~k has been made that whatever a good deal of material on charity legislation, else the Social service library should becon~e, etc. it would suiely be a boon to the garrets and Second, we have a fairly cqrnplete file of cellars of Boston, but so far I have not had "Lend a hand," Charities revrew, Charities much trouble in guarding against its becom- and the commons, and two files of the Survey; ing a general dumping ground. We certainly complete file of Charity organization revlew, do not intend that it shall become one. We the organ of the charity organ society, mean that it shall contain as much up-to-date a complete file since 1904 of the Revue Ptdan- material as possible, and as one effort in this tl~ropiqueon French charities, and we are sub- direction, we are subscribing to or receiving scribing now for the Gerrnan publications and by gift about forty periodicals, among which for their Schriften des Deutschen Vereins fiir I may mention: American journal of ; Armenpflege und Wohltl~ltigkeit, which corre- American labor legislation review (London) ; sponds to our National conference of charities Eugenics review (London) ; International la- and corrections. bor bulletin (London) ; Jewish charity, New Third, on the economic side there are the York; Journal c~iminallaw and criminology; United States labor repoits and bulletins, re- Journal psycho-astl~er~ics;Juvenile court rec- ports of State bureaus of labor, publications ord, Chicago; Outlook for the blind; Psycl~o- of the American economic association, Johns logidal clinic, Philadelphia; Playground; La Hopkins university stud+s, Annals of the revue pl~ilantl~ropique, ; Social diseases ; American academy of polltical and social sci- Training school, Vineland, N. J. ; Vigilance, ence, and a good deal of materials on labor New York; American annals of the deaf; legislation, woman labor, child labor, strikes, American journal of nursing; American pub- lockouts, welfare work, industrial insurance, lic Ilealth association journal; Bibliography of workingmen's budgets, employers' liability, social science ; The child, Chicago ; Garden housing, playgrounds, etc. When we were cities and town planning; Journal of outdoor asked, a short time ago, to makc out a bibli- life ; Progress.; Sociological review ; Vocational ogiaphy on old age pensions we were able to education; Zeitschrift( puhlication of German muster six books, or good sized parts of books, charities). nine United States government reports, four The Cl~ild~en'said society rccciwd leports, Massachusetts reports, seven from Great Brit- bulletins and other publications from over ain, five pamphlets, and quite a number of 1,300 pl~ilar~thropicagencles in the United magazine articles on the subject. States and foreign countries, the exact figtiles We have also a good deal on the subject being, 2 French, 14 German, 75 English, 8 of eugenics, including sever,al of the Eugenlcs Australian, 7 Canadian, 1 Swedish, the rest laboratory lectures, memoirs and Eugenics from the United States, of which 189 are from record office bulletins on sex hygiene, and about Boston. This list was made lip vely calcf~~llyfifty shclves of materials on education and while MI. ~ittwellwas at the head of the health matters, as the reports of the U. S. Children's a~dsociety to include most of the Commissioner of educatio~~,of State boards of agencies in Boston, many in Massachusetts and educnt inn, material on indust~ial schools, vo- New York and representative ones from all cational education, tecl~nical cducation, child over the United States and En~land,and a study and reports of hospitals, boards of few from other countries. We shall endeavor health, besides ,proceedings of the National to keep these files up-to-date, and we arc just association for the stndy of prevention of tu- getting out now a letter telling of the Social berculosis and the Inte~national congress on service libiaiy and asking that its name be tubetculosis. substituted for the Children's aid society on We have some material on local government, the mailing lists of those various institutions including reports of the local government and societies. board of Great Britain, city documents of Perhaps I could not do better to give you places in Massacl~usetts, and some reports on an idea of what the Social service liblary is oublic finance. as auditor's, assessors', insurance than to summarize very briefly what it con- ind bank cohrnissioners~reports, and treasur- tains. ers' reports of various counties in Massachu- First in importance come, I think, the repoits, setts. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Besides these reports, which constitute, nu- and adopt a classification which will be ade- merically and otherwise, the principal asset of quate, and to arrange things in her own way. the collection, we have a large number of It is qulte a different matter from taking over pamphlets and about 1,000 books on all sorts a large mass of books which may have been of sociological questions, including a nearly classified in an entirely different way. Then complete set and, in several cases, duplicates it is very interesting to hear of her experi- of the Russell Sage Foundation publications ences in this line. and we expect soon to purchase a number of the more recent books on the various subjects. LIST OF UNIFORM SYSTEMS OB ACCOUNTS This, then, is the nucleus mentioned in the FORWLATED BY COHPANIES, ASSO- statement which I read, upon CIATIONS AND STATE COMXIS- which we are aiming to build up a really SIONS. good working library on sociological subjects, and in course of time we hope to be able to Compiled by the Library of the N. Y. Public compare ourselves with the Library of the Service Commission for the First District, school of philanthropy in New York, which, New York City, April, 1913. according to its last report, had a circulation ELECTRICITY of over 8,000 volumes and a reading room use of over 17,000. The Library is to be carried COMPANIES on in connection with the School for social Revised classification of electric accounts workers, as I have said, and is to be used as for the McMillan companies. American a reading and reference room for its students, Light and Traction Co. 1907. but it is primarily a perfectly free reference Uniform system of accounts for electric com- and lending library for all who are interested panies. United Gas Improvement Company, in its subjects, and we hope very much that Philadelpliia, 146 pages. people will avail theniselves of its resources. Classification of accounts. Milwaukee Elec- We are much handicapped at present by not tric Railway and Light Co., Jan. 1, 1910. 163 having a catalogue, or only one-sixteenth of pages. one, much out of date, that was bequeathed Standard classification of construction and to us by the Children's aid society, and with operating accounts for electric li&t and the present staff we cannot hope to make good power companies, Stone & Webstcr, Boston, this defect very soon; but my assistant and I March, 1913, 131 pages. have been over all the material in the last three months, and are ready to do our best COMMISSIONS to make up for this lack so far as we can. I hope that before long, there may be funds Uniform classification of accounts for elec- available to devote to a catalogue. tric corporations. California Railroad Com- You may be interested in the following par- mission. Oct. 23, 1912. 69 pages. agraphs from our newly printed rules: District of Columbia "Hours of opening. From October 1st to Uniform system of accounts for gas and June lst, inclusive, the library is open to electric corporations in the District of Co- readers and borrowers from 9 A. M. to 5.30 lumbia, U. S. Interstate Commerce Com- P. M, daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, mission, 1909. 90 pages. and during the winter on Tuesday and Thurs- Great Britain day evenings from 7 to 9. The hours of open- Form of accounts prescribed by the Board ing during the summer months will be an- of Trade for a local authority. Great nounced later. Britain-Board of Trade. Electric Lighting "Loans. Books will be loaned on personal Acts, 1882-1890. 1905. 12 pages. application or on a written order. No bor- rower may keep from the library more than Maryland three volumes at a time without special per- Regulations governing the appraisal, dis- mission from the librarian, nor any volume tribution and apportionment of fixed capi- longer than two weeks without rencwal. Books tal of electrical corporations. Maryland which are needed for the use of students in the Public Service Commission. June 12, 1911. School for social workers are subject to recall Circular no. 26A. 17 pages. upon three days' notice." Regulations prescribing a uniform system of accounts for electrical corporations. I perhaps should say that the Library, as Maryland Public Service Commission. Cir- said in the preliminary statements, is in the building of the School for social workers, and cular no. 30A. June 12, 1911. 73 pages. in a Way is carried on in connection with the Nevada School. The reading room is for the use of Uniform classification of accounts for elec- the students, but it is primarily a public ref- tric utilities. Nevada Public Service Com- erence and reading library for anybody inter- mission. 1911. 47 pages. ested in sociological subjects, and we hope very New York City much that people will use it and we will do Uniform system of accounts for electrical our best to make its resources available. corporations. New York State-Public Ser- DR. BIGELOW.Miss Ketcham is very fortu- vice Commission, First District, 1908. 61 nate in being able to start in a new library pages. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

New York State 1908. 56 pages. Uniform system of account's for electrical Uniform system of accounts for gas corpor- corporatlons. Oct. 21, 1908. New York ations: Second condensed scheme for gal State-Public Service Commission, Second corporations having gross operating rev- District. 61 pages. enues from gas operations ilmoutlting to leas Uniform' system of accounts for electrical than $100,000 per annum. New York State corporations: condcnsed scheme for corpor- -Public Service Commission, Second Dis- ations having gross operating revenues trict. nec. 16, 1908. 56 pages. from electric operations, amounting to less Wisconsin than $500,000 per annum. New York State Uniform classitication of accounts for gas -Public Service Commission, Second Dis- utilities. Wisconsin Railroad Commission. trict. Dec. 1, 190s. 60 pages. Apr., 1909. 116 pages. Wisconsin Uniform classification of accounts for elec- RAILROADS tric utilities. Wisconsirl Railroad Commis- COMMISSIONS sion. Apr., 1909. 129 pages. Great Britain GAS Railway companies (Accounts and returns) act, 1911. 46 pages. ASSOCIATIONS AND COMPANIES New York State Revised classifitation of gas accouats for Uniform system of accounts for expendi- the McMillan Companies. American Light tures for road and equipment: operating rev- and Tract1011 Co. 1907. enues, operating expenses, locomotive miles, Report of committee on a uniform system car miles, and train miles. Public Service of accounts for gas companies, American Commission, Second District, Dec. 16, 1307. Gas Light Assocjation, 1902, 173 pages. (A 103 pages. new revision 1s in progress.) Amendments to uniform system of accounts for expenditures for road and equipment, COMMISSIONS operating revenues, expenses, locomotive California miles, car miles, and train miles as estab- Uniform. classification of accounts for gas lished for steam railroad corporations. Pub- corporatlons. California Railroad Commis- lic Service commission, Second District. Ef- sion. Oct. 23, 1912. 63 pages. fective Oct. 1, 1906. 28 pages. District of Columbi,a Oklaho~nn Uniform system of accounts for gas and Accounting system for all public service electric colporations in the District of Co- companies operating in . Order lumbia, U. S. Interstate Commerce Commis- no. 201, no. 265. 1909. 81 pages. sion. 1909. 90 pages. Oregon Maryland Rules govei ning accormting and apportion- Regulations governing the applaisal, distri- ment of operating revenues and operating bution and apportionment of fixed capital expenses. Railroad Comrnission, Oct., 1912, of gas colporations. Maryland Public Ser- 32 pnges. vice Commission, June 12, 1911. Circular United States Government no. 28A. 14 pages. Classification of locomotive miles, car miles, Regulations presclibing a u?iform system of and train miles as prescribed by the Inter- accounts fo~gas corporatlons. Maryland state Commerece Commission in accordance Public Service Commission, June 12, 1911. with section 20 of the Act to regulate com- Circular no. 32A. 60 pages. merce. U. S. Interstate Commcrce Com- Nevada mission. 1907. 18 pages. Uniform classification of accounts for gas Classification of expendituies for road utilities. Nevada Public Service Cornrnis- and equipment. U. S. Interstate Commerce sion. 1911. 47 Qages. Commission. Filst revised issue. 1907. 27 New York City pages. Supplement to above. July, 1908. Uniform systcm of accounts for gas cor- 15 pages. porations. New York State-Public Service Classification of operating expenses. U. S. Comrnission, Pilst District, 1908. 64 pages. Interstate Commerce Cornmission. 3rd re- New York Statc vised issue. 1907. 69 pages. Supplement to Uniform system of accounts fol gas corpor- above. July, 1908. ations. Oct. 21, 1908. New York State- Classification of operating expenses. U. S. Public Service Comrnission, Second District, Interstate Commerce Commission. 3rd re- 56 pages. vised issue, 1907. 89 pages. Supplement Uniform system of accounts for gas corpor- to above. July, 1708. ations: Condensed scheme for corporations Classific;;tion of operating expenses. U. S. having gross operating revenues from gas Interstate Commerce Comrnission. 3rd re- operations amounting to less than $500,000 vised issue conclensed. 1908. 15 pages. per annum. New York State-Public Ser- Classification of aperaiing revenues. U. S. vice Commisqion, Second District. Dec. 7, Interstate Comme~ceCon~mission. First is- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Wisconsin suw 1908. 15 pages. Supplement to above, - -. Uniform classification of accounts for tele- July, 1908. 13 -pages. phone utilities. Wisconsin Railroad Corn- Classification of revenues and expenses for outside operations. U. S. Interstate Corn) mission, May, 1909. 122 pages.

.rnrrre-. - - -. Commission.- - First issue, 1908. TRANSIT Classification for expenditure for additions and betterments as prescribed for steam ASSOCIATIONS AND COMPANIES roads. U. S. Interstate Commerce Commis- Revised classification of traction accounts sion. First issue.^ July, 1909. 44 pages. for the McMillan companies. American First revised issue, July 1, 1910. 41 pages. Light and Traction Co. 1907. Form of general balance sheet statement Standard classification of operating expens- for steam roads. U. S. Interstate Corn- es, operating revenues and expenditures for merce Commission. First issue. July, 1909. road and equipment for the use of electric 36 paaes. First revised issue. June 15, railways. American Street and Interurban 1910. 33 pages. Railway Accountants' Association, June, Regulations to govern the issuing and re- 1909. cording of passes of steam roads. U. S. Classification of accounts. Milwaukee Elec- Interstate Commerce Commission. First is- tric Railway and Light Co. Jan. 1, 1910. sue. .Jan. 1, 1912. 26 pages. 163 pages. Classification of revenues and expellses of Standard classification of accounts of elec- sleeping car operations. U. S. Interstate tric railways coveriug the classification of Commerce Commission. F~rstrevised issue. construction and equipnlent accounts and July 1, 1912. 41 pages. classification of income and operating ex- Form of income and profit and loss state- pcnce accounts. New York State Street ment for steam roads. U. S. Interstate Com- Railway Association. Oct. 22, 1907. 31 merce Commission. First issue. July 1, pages. 1912. 29 pages. Washington COMMISSIONS Classification of units involved in construc- Maryland tion, and additions and betterments. Wash- Regulations governing the appraisal, distri- ington Railroad Comrnissian. 1910. 31 bution and apportionment of fixed capital pages. of street and electric railways. Marylar~d Public Service Commission. June 12, 1911. TELEPHONE Circular no. 27A. 18 pages. Regulations prescribing a uniform system of COMPANIES accounts for street railway corporations. Standard telephone accounts. American Maryland Public Service Commission. June Telephone and Telegraph Co. Jan. 1, 1913. 12, 1911. Circular no. 3lA. 83 pages. 103 pages. New Jersey COMMISSIONS Classification of operating expenses, operat- ing revenues and expenditures fo~road and Maryland equipment for the use of electr~clailways. Regulations governing the appraisal, distri- American Street and Interurban Railway bution and apportionment of fixed capital Accountants' Association. Adopted by New of telephone and telegraph companies. Jersey Board of Public Utility Commission- Maryland Public Service Commission. June ers, with two changes relating to deprecia- 12, 1911. Circular no. 29A. 12 pages. tion. J-me, 1909. 59 pages. Regulations prescribing a uniform system of accounts for telephone and telegraph com- New York City panies. Ma~ylandPublic Service Commis- Uniform system of accounts of stleet and sion, June 12, 1911. Circular no. 33a. 46 electric railways. New York State-Pub- pages. lic Service Commission, First District. 1908. Nebraska 88 pages. Uniform classification of accounts for tele- New York State phone companies. May 15, 1909. 18 pages. Uniform system of accounts for street rail- Explanation of accounting system for tele- road corporations. New York State-Pub- phone companies. July 1, 1909. 12 pages. lic Service Commission, Second District. Nebraska State Railway Commission. Sept. 22, 1908. 74 pages. Uniform system of accounts for street rail- New York State road corporations. Condensed scheme for Uniform system of accounts for telephone corporations having gross operating rev- corporations. Public Service Commission, enues from street railway operations, Second district. First issue. Jan. 1, 1912. 61 amounting to less than $500,000 per annurn. pages. New York State-Public Service Commis- United States Government slon. Second Diqtrict. Nov. 10, 1908. 74 Uniform system of accounts for telephone pages. companies. U. S. Interstate Commerce Com- Uniform system of accounts for street rail- mission. First issue. Jan. 1, 1913. 79 pagee. road corporations; condensed scheme for SPECIAL

corporations having gross operating rev- SELECT LIST OF REFERENCES ON THE enues from street railroad operations, SECALL OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS. amounting to less than $100,000 per annum. New York State-Public Service Cornmis- Compiled under the directions of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer, Library of SIOII, Second District. Dec. 2, 1908. 74 pages. Congress. United States Government This list supplements the co-operative "Select Classilication of operating expenses of elec- 4ist of references on the Initiative, Referen- tric railways. U. S. Interstate Commerce dum and Recall" printed by the Library of Commission. Filst issue. 1908. 47 pages. Congress last Ap~il. It is devoted to a' phase Classification of ope~atingrevenues of elec- of the Recall which 11nd its origin in Col. tric railways. U. S. Interstate Commerce Roosevelt's speech at Columbus, O., Feb. 21, Commissiun. First issue. 1908. 15 pages. 1912, just when our list passing through Classification of expenditures for road and the press. It was possible to lnclude in the equipment of electric railways. U. S. Inter- printed list only a few of the very earliest state Comrnerce Commission. First Issue. comments. The subject is of such widespread 1908. 20 pages. interest that it seemed desirable to list the discussions which have appeared in print Wisconsin down to date, Oct. 19, 1912. Unifo~mclassification of accounts for elec- tric ailw ways. Wisconsirl Railload Comniis- Bavorable sion. July, 1909. 149 pages. Davids, Ue~keley. The recall of decisions. Law notes, Apr., 1912. v. 16: 4-6. WATER Dodd, W. F. To amend the Federal judicial code. Nation, Apr. 25, 1912, v. 94: 409-410. COMMISSIONS AP2.N2,vn94 California Frederiok, Karl T. The sienificance- of the Uniform classification of accounts. for wa- recall of judicial dccisions. Atlantic month- ter wrporations. Califo~niaRaifroad Com- ly, July, 1912, v. 110: 46-52. AP2.AS,v.110 mission. Oct. 23, 1912. 54 pages. Gagnor, William J. Do our courts stand in the way of social and economic progress? Xaryland Congressior~al record, 62d Cong., 2d sess., v. Regulations governing the appraisal, distri- 48, no. 144 (cul~entfile) : p. 7468-7470. bution and apportionment of fixed capital Address reprinted f~om the Commoner. of water companies. Maryland Public Ser- Introduced into the Record by Rep. Sims. vice Commission. June 12, 1911. Cilcular Kales, Albert M. Address on the recall of no. 34A. 15 pages. judicial decisions. Regulations p~escribinga uniform system of (In Illinois state bar association. Proceed- accounta ior water companies. Maryland ings, 1912. Chicago, 1912. p. 203-218.) Public Service Commission. June 12, 1911. Lewis, William D. A new method of consti- Circular no. 35A. 55 pages. tutional amendment by popular vote. Amer- ican academy of political and social science. Nevada Annals, Sept., 1912, v. 43: 311-325. Uniform classificatio~! of accounts for water Hl.A4,v.43 utilities. Nevada Public Service Commis- The Luther of neo-protestantism. Ignotus. sion. 1911. 47 pages. Westminster review, May, 1912, v. 177: 508- United States Government 522. AP4. W5,v.177 [Jnifor~naccounts for systems of water sup- McCarthy, Charles. The Wisconsin idea. ply. U. S. Bureau of Census. 1911. 44 New York, The Macrnillan Co., 1912. 323 p. pages. Recall of judicial decisions: p. 122, 255, Classific.ltion of operating expenses by car- 269. JKZ71.M2 riers by water. U. S. Interstate Commerce Metcalf, James A. Dangers that lurk in the Commission, First issue. 1910. 37 pages. recall of the judiciary. American academy Classification of operating revenues of car- of political and social science. Annals, Sept., riers by water. U. s. Interstate Commerce 1912, v. 43: 278-285. Commission. First issue. 1910. 15 pages. "l'he judicial referendum": p. 283-285. Hl.A4,v.43 Wisconsin Opposed to Recall of Judges But in Favor of Uniform classification of accounts for water Recall of Decisions. utilities. Wisconsin Railroad Commission, Post, Melville D. Recall of iudicial decisions. Apr., 1908. 140 pages. Saturday evening post, ~ug:31, 1912, v. 185: 3-4. AP2.S2,~.185 POWER Review of decisions: a historical illustration. COMPANIES Outlook.,", Mav 11. 1912. , v. 101: 58-59. ~~208,v.101

System a of accounts for hydraulic power Roosevelt, Theodore. Bar association and the compames. United Gas Improvement Com- ~opularreview of iudicial decision. Out- pany, Philadelphia. (n. d.) 59 pages. iook, Aug. 31, 1912, *v. 101: 1004-1005. - SPECIAL LIBRARIES

AP208,v.lOl A Weation of fundamentals. Nation, Mar. 21, A charter of democracy. Address 1912, v. 94: 278. AP2.N2,vn94 before tire Olria constitutional convention [at "Recall of decisions." Chautauquan, May, 1912, Columbus, Feb. 21, 1912.1 Outlook, Feb. 24, v. 66: 291-292. AP2.C48,v.66 1912, v. 100: 390-402. AY2.OS,v.100 The recall of judicial decisions. National The judges, the lawyers, and the corporation reporter, Feb. 29, 1912, v. 44: 89. people. Outlook, Au~.31, 1912, V. 101: 1003- The recall of judicial decisions as a remedy. 1007. AP2.08,v.lOI Central law journal, July 12, 1912, v. 75: People and the courts. Outlook, 25-27. 17, 1912, V. 101. 855-857. AP2.08,v.lOl Bemington, Harold. Mr. Roosevelt's "recall The right of the peoplc to rule. of judicial decisions." A lawyer's corn- Address . . . Mar. 20, 1912. Washington, rnents. American review of reviews, May, Govt. print. off., 1912. 14 p. (U. S. 62d 1912, v. 45. 567-569. AlJ2.R4.v.45 Cong., 2d sess. Senate. Doc. 473.) Root, Elihu. The importance of an indepen- JK271.R74 dent judiciary. Independent, Apr. 4, 1912, Also printed in Outlook, Mar. 23, 1912, V. v. 72. 704-707. AP2.153,v.72 100: 618-626. APZ.OS,v.lOO Judicial decisions and public feeling. Snow, Alpheus H. The position of the judi- Address . . Jan. 19, 1912. Washington, ciary in the United States. American acad- Govt. print. off., 1912. 12 p. (U. S. 62d Cong., emy of political and social science. Annals, 2d sess. Serrate. Doc. 271). JK1533.R7 Sept, 1912, v. 43' 286-310. (In New York state bar association. Pro- Recall of decisions: p. 307-310. ceedings, 1912. Albany, 1912. v. 35, p. 148- Hl.A4,v.43 167.) Wilcox, Delos F. Government by all the peo- (Also printed in Law notes, Apr., 1912, v. 16: ple; or, The initiative, the referendum and 6-11.) the recall as instruments of democarcy. New Shepard, Walter J. Appeal and thc rcfe~en- York, The Macmillan Co., 1912. 324 p. dum. Nation, Apr. 4, 1912, v. 94' 335. "The referendum on judicial decisions": p. AP2.N?,v.94 164-166. ~F4$3.~6~6Wolfe, James El. Mr. Roosevelt and the re- Opposed. call. [Letter to the Editor.] Nation, Mar. Brown, Rome G. The judicial recall-a fal- 28, 1912, V. 94' 312-313. lacy repugnant to constitutional government. AP2.N2,v.94 American acedemy of political and social aci- ence. Annals, Sept., 1912, v. 43 : 239-277. Hl.A4,v.43 CURRENT REFERENCES Qardner, Augustus F. The recall of judges Agricultural co-operation. Speech in the House, Apr. and of decisions. The Wisconsi~r state board of ~ublicaf- 4, 1912. Congressional record, 62d Cong., 2d fairs has issued as part one of its "Report sess., v. 48, no. 96 (current file) : 4530-4537. Gibbons, John. The legal aspect of the re- upon co-operation and marketing" advance sheets entitled "Agricultural co-operation," call of judges and judicial decisions. Na- the results of an exhaustive investigation tional corporation repo~ted,May 9, 1312, v. made by Mr. John Sinclair of the Wisco?- 44: 477. QntHrie, William D. Constitutional morality. sin legislative reference department, 111 Europe and In Wisconsin and the United North American review, Aug., 1912, v. 196: States in gene1 al. Further bulletins which 154-173. AP2.N7,v.196 will constitute parts of this valuable report Address before the Pennsylvania bar asso- are promised to deal with co-operative ciation, June 25, 1912. credit, marketing of products and markets Earnill, Charles II. Argument against the re- in general, stores or distributive co-opera- call of judicial decisions. (In Illinois State tion and other forms of existing co-opera- bar association. Proceedings, 1912. Chicago, 1912. p. 218-234.) tion. 132 p. 1912. Discussion: p. 234-237. Agricultural development and education. Constitutional chaos. Forum, July, The Second annual conference of the 1912, v. 48. 45-60. AP2.PSJv.48 Committees on agricultural development XoDonough, James B. The recall of deci- and education of the State bankers' associa- sions-a fallacy. Central lalv journal, July tions met Aug. 7, 1912, in Minneapolis and 12, 1912, v. 75: 35-40. representatives of thirty states and of Canada Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy and platform. In- were present to hear the excellent addresses dependent, Feb. 29, 1912, v. 72: 473-474. on various phases of the betterment of rural Opposed to recall of judicial decisions. life and the extension of rural education. AP2.153,v.72 State committee reports were submitted on Mr. Roosevelt's startling new issue: the re- the work being accomplished in the indi- call of judicial decisions. Current literature, vidual states. 366 p. Apr., 1912, v. 52: 371-374. AP2.C95,v.52 Bill boards. President Tait on the recall of decisions. Out- The Chicago City club Bulletin, dated look, Mar. 23, 1912, v. 100: 604*-605*. Dec. 16, 1912, is entirely given up to a re- AP2.08,v.lOO sume of a discussion held at the City club, SPECIAL LIBRAL

Dec. 7 on "Bill board and other forms of administration. Advance sheets of part 1 outdoor advertising," wliicl~ was ar~anged Iiave been issued. 60 p. 1912. jointly by the Municipal art league of Chi- Corporations-Taxation. cago, and he City club Committee on mu- The fourth part of the "Report of the nicipal a1 1. 'l'l~e business and the a~ti~tic Comniiasioner of colporations on the sys- sides of tlie matter mere expounded and tem of taxing manufacturing, mercantile, forms of regulation discussed. transpoltation and transmission corpora- Births-Registration. tions," has appealed, Nov. 29, 1912, and 'The first publication f~nmthe U. S. covers the western central states, Minnesota, C11ildie11's bureau, Monograph no. 1, takes North Ilakota, South Dakota, Iowa, rNebrss- up tlie subject of "Hi~thregistration," claini- kn, Kansas and . Parts 1 to 3, ing it to be an ind~spensable basis for already issued, dealt with the New Eng- studies of child life and utging the neces- land, Middle Atlantic and Eastel11 Central sity fo~extending tlie registration area. A states. 144 p. model bill fo~a state law to provide for the Drinking cups and roller towels. reg~ptration of all births and deaths, is ap- A timely digest of laws and regulations pended. 24 p. in force in tlie United States on "Common Child welfare. thinking cups and roller towels," has been' Under the title "Tlie child in the city," compiled by J. W. Kerr and A. A. Moll of the Depaltment of social investigation of the U. S. Public health service and appears tlie Chicago school of civics and philan- as Public Ilealtli bulletin no. 57 of that de- tl~ropy has published tlie series of papers partment. In connection with the drinking presented 'it the Chicago Child welfare ex- cup question, suction shuttles, lung-testing hibit, May 11-25, 1911. The volume is machines and telephones are also mentioned. edited by Soplionisba P. B~eckinridge, with (Further, in Public health reports of Jan. an introduction by Cyrus H. McCo~mick, 3, 1913, p. 7, of.tlle same Department, finger who made the exhibit possible. The main lmwls are put on the suspicious list.) 30 p. topics, witliout including the names of the 1912. well-known speakers and the subjects, of Drugs-Habit forming. their addresses, are : Personal servlce ; A timely digest of "Laws and regula- Physical care; School and tlie cliild; Spe- tions in force in the United States relating cial groups of children; The working cliild; to the possession, use, sale and rnanufac- The law and the child; Libraries and mo- ture of poisons and habit-forming drugs," scums; Social and civic problems of child- by M. I. Wilbert and M. G. Motter is is- hood; The uncompleted task. illus. 502 p. sued by tlie U. S. Public health service as 1912. Public health bulletin no. 56, Nov., 1912. Cold Storage. The introduction contains valuable tabular The .American journal of public. l~caltli statements in regard to state requirements for Nov., 1912, contains a symposium on relating to sale of poisons, practice of phar- cold storage, whicl~includes in addition to macy, sale of narcptics, etc. The abstracts the Report of the Committee on cold stor- and references to federal, state and muni- age, the following articles: Cold storage and cipal lnws and regulations in regard to public health, by W. T. Sedgwick; Physics habit-fnrming drugs are rendered addition- of ref~igeration, by P. 11. Bryce; Bacteri- ally valuable by an analytical index. 278 p. ology of fermentation and put~efaction in Encyclopedins. relation to the conservation of foods, by S. A paper by G. W. Lee on "Refetence C. Plescott; Hygienic and economic results books as ptiblig utilities, some well-known of refrigeration in the conservation of pou\- encyclopedias compared," which appeared try and eggs, by ,M. E. Pennington; Hy- in tlre Libraly journal, Nov., 1912, has been gienic results of refrigeration in the con- reprinted and forms a leaflet of seven servation of fish and mollusks, by 1-1. D. pages. Tlie foul encyclopedias selected for Pease; Cold storage in relation to food sup- discussiorl ale the Ame~ican, Britannica, ply, ,by FI. E. Barnald. Nelson's looseleaf, the New Century. First Colleges and universities-State, they are compnred, tl~cneach is summarized. Arthur Lefcvre, Secietary for research of A brief annotated list of other encycloped- the Organization for tlie enla~gementby the i,ts concludes the summary. state of Texas of its institutions of liiglier Epileptics. education, which has been endowed under An Illinois Committee of fifty has issued the auspices of tlie Alumni association of for a campaign for legislation on cpileptica, the University of Texas is prepling a a pamphlet entitled "How tlie uncared-for study with special reference to the state of epileptic fares in '~llinois-colony care the Texas, on "The organization and adrninis- remedy-a plea for immediate legislative tration of a state's institutions of liiglier action-how you can hclp!' In addition to education," which when completed will con- the discussion on Illinois conditions, items sist of two parts: 1, Features of organiza- of general interest in the report are: a tion for which the state legislature is re- map showing states which have colonies in sponsible; and 2, Internal organization and whole or in part for epileptics and states 62 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

which make no provision for them, p. 4; plan map," of New Hampshire are also a table giving information and statistics of given. the ex~st~ngstate epileptic colonies, P. 24-5 Garbage disposal. and a bibliography, p. 45-17. illus. 48 p. The Report of a Chicago commission, ap- 1913. pointed March 19, 1912, "to investigate the Explosives-Coal mines. question of the disposal of garbage and L'Investigations of explosives used in coal dead animals," is contained in the Journal mines," by Clarence Hall, W. 0. Snelling of tlie proceedings of the City council of and S. P. Ilowcll, with a chapter on natural Chicago, June 13, 1912, 1). 684-689. The gas used at Pittsburgh by G. A. Burrell, Con~mission recommends the incinelation by constitutes Bulletin 15 of the U., S. Bu~eau the city of ashes and garbage for the outly- of miues. Particular attentloll 1s glven to ing portions of tlie city; that it would be the testing of explosives. 198 p. inexpedieni for the city to operate a gar- bage reduction p,lant but that it sl~ouldown Factory investigation. the site; the extension of the time of the 'The Preliminary report of the New York present contract to give more time for new commission, created by an act of 1911 "to arrangements; that bids for the disposal of investigate the conditions under which man- dead animals either on a municipal or pri- ufacturing is carried on in cities of the vate site be invited. first and second class in the state," com- p~isesthree bulky volumes. Volume 1 cori- Health boards. tains discussions of the work of the com- "Organization,, powers and duties of mission, file haza~d in factory buildings, health officers; an irnalysis of the laws and f act01 y inspection, sanitation of factories, regulations relating thereto in force in the occupational diseases and industrial poison- United States," by J. W. Kerr and A. A. ing, bakeries, manufacturing in tenernents, Moll, constitutes Public health bulletin no. employment of women in manufacturing es- 54 of the U. S. Public health service. The tablishments, child labor, foundlies and con- laws are analyzed as to the following tains as appetldices, general arid special re- points ; historical, piesent organization of ports on some of the same toplcs and bills state health authori~ies,relation of state and submitted. Volumes 2 and 3 ale devoted local health authorities, co-operation of to the minutes of the public hearings held, federal, state and local authorities, local witnesses examined and testimony. 3 v. boards of health. The text of the laws and 1986 p. 1912. court decisions are also given. 452 p. 1912. Farm Problems. High schools. Foui recent publications from various Bu- A thorough statistical study of public and reaus of the U. S. department of agricul- private high schools in the United States ture, discuss various phases of farm life. constitutes Bulletin, 1912, no. 22, wh. no. In Farmer's bulletin 511, E. H. Thompson 494 of tlie U. S. Bureau of education. 36 goes elaborately into the subject of "Farm tables, 375 p. 1912. bookkeeping" (37 p.) ; the Bureau of sta- Immigration and labor. tistics has issued two Bulletins nos. 94 and In his "Immigration and labor, the eco- 99, "Supply of farm labor," (81 p.) and nomlc aspects of European immigration to "Wages of farm laborers" (72p.) both by the United States," Isaac Hourwich has G. K. Hblmes, the latter being the nine- treated immigration solely as an economic teenth in the series of mvestigations of farm problem and for that reason has confined wages, begun in 1866; and the Bureau of his study to European immigration, exclud- plant industry's Bulletin. no. 259. is on the ing Oriental immigration as primarily a subject, "WI~is farm managkment,,, by race question. Part one is a "Summary re- W. J. Spillman. (84. p.).. view," part two, a "Topical analysis," part Forest flres. three, "Immigrants in the leading indus- The U. S. Forest service's recent publica- tries," and part four L'Conclusions" on the tions on forest fires are found in Bulletins probable effects of immigration. 544 p. nos. 113 and 117 and Circular no. 205, with 1912. the following titles respectively : "Method Insurance-State, and apparatus for the prevention and con- Nos. 2 and 3 of the Workmen's insurance trol of forest fires as exemplified by D. W. and compensation series, which is being is- Adams," (27 p.) ; "Forest fires, their causes, sued by the U. S. Bureau of labor, deal extent and effects with a summary of record- respectively with "British national insur- ed destruction and loss," by F. G. Plummer ance act, 1911," and "Sickness and accident (39 p.) ; and "Forest fire protection under insurance law of Swit~erland,'~and consti- the Weeks law in co-operation with states," tute whole numbers 102 and 103 of the Bul- by J. G. Peters (15 p.). In the last named letin of the Bureau. The full text of these aid received by various states from the two laws is quoted. 87 p. and 27 p. Jul. government in 1912 is summarized in a and Aug., 1912. table on p. 6, a law of 1911 on prevention of forest fires, quoted as a The first Annual report of the Industrial direct result of the Weeks law and a "fire insurance department of the state of Wash- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

ington, covering the twelve. months ending ciations and with non-co-operative market- Sept. 30, 1912, is a very valuable document ing agencies; and the third group deals with as Washington is the first state to adopt the demand for farm products at trade cen- state insurance. The report gives besides ters. The preliminary review includes rec- the necessary statistical tables an organiaa- ommendations to Congress relative to the tion chart of the commission, a discussion dissemination of information on the subjects of the compensation idea, a history of the dealt with. 391 p. 1913. (Report no. 98.) Washington legislntion, organization of the Mercury po~soning. commission, its policy and problems, acci- Mrs. Lindon W. Bates has prepared a dent prevetltion and safety education, sta- study on "Mercury poisoning in tlie indus- tistical results and compa~isonu, ~eportof tries of New York City and vicinity," which chief medical adv~ser, alleged defects and has heen published by the Womcn's welfare suggested amendments to the law and rec- department of the Natibndl civic federation, ommendations. 516 p. New Yolk and New Jer\ey sections, of whose Committee upon dangerous and un- Recent British ~epo~tsin connection with healthy industries the author is chairman. the National insurance act include "Unem- In tlie appendix, 102 cases collected by spe- ployment insurance regulations," (27 1)) ; cia1 investigation are reported. 129 p. "Unemployment insurance, summary of de- Milk stations. cisions given by the umpire up to and in- The Committee for the reduction of in- cluding July 4, 1912, on questions whether fant mortality of the New York (city) milk contributions ale payable in respect of any cornmittec 11ab made a special report on workman or classes of workmen under pa~t "lnfant moltal~ty and milk stations," deal- 2 of the Act," (75. p.) ; and "Repo~tof the ing with the p~oblem of reducing infant Comtnittce to cons~del xnd advise with re- mot tality, the c.~rnpaignsca~~ietl on in New gald to the application of the National in- Yolk and in ot11e1 cit~es,itnd the details of surance act to outworkers." a demonst~ation by public and prlvate Interstate commerce. agencies in New Yo~htltl~ing 1911 to de- Thomas Carl Spelling has prepaicd under tcilnirre tlie valt~eof milk station wotk ,IS the direction of, and for tlie use of, the a p~actical means of educing infant mor- Senate Committee on interstate commerce, tal~ty. illus. 176p. 1912. a treatise of 318 printed pages entitled Mines-Saf ety. "Power of Congress over interstate com- A description of the "Pi~st national merce." Part one is "Judicial expressions" mine-safety demonstration, Pittsburgl~, Oct. and pa~ttwo "Application of, in particular 30-31, 1911," by 1-1. M. Wilson and A. I-I. cases!' 1912. Fay, with a chapter on the evplosion at the Lead poisoning. Experimental mine hy G. S. Rice is given The initial number of a new series, is- in Hulletin 44 of the U. S. Bureai~of mines sued by the U. S. Bureau of Iahnr, the and is of exceptional interest as slwwing how rnucl~ has been accomplislled in the Industlial accidents and hygiene series, IS on "Lead poisoning in potteries, t~leworks field of increasing the safety of mtne wnrk- ets. 75 p. and porcelain enameled sanitary male fac- Municipal legal bureau. to~ies,"' and constitutes wh. no. 104 of its Bulletin. The Great Britain regulations for The Free legal aid bu~eauof the Bo.~rd these trades are published as appendix B. of public welfa~eof Kansas City, Mo., has 95 p. 1912. prepared a little booklet ('Legal suggestions" which is "a plain statement of some of the Idarkets. laws most flequently atfecting the interests J. F. Catter, Secretary of the San Antonio of applicants to the Flee legal aid bureau." Cliamlier of cornmeice contributes to the Laws affecting family relations, property Fell., 1913 issue of The Ame~ican c~tyan questions, labor, taxation, etc., ale briefly article in which is given in brief paragraph and simply wmmarized. 44 p. 1912. form the results of his inquiry into market- Open air schools. ing conditions in 71 cities, his aim being to make a thorough study of the market situa- B. S. Warien, who, while stationed at the tion, particularly the publicly owned rnar- U. S. Marine hospital in St. Louis, acted kets. p. 121-138. as medical director of the Society for the relief and prevention of tuberculosis, of that city, l~asin a paper of fifteen printed pages, The U. S. Department of agriculture has embodied his experience and observations in had prepared a thorougl~ study of "Sys- regard to the open air schools of St. Louis tems of nla~ketingfarm pioductv and de- which with the title "Open air schools for mands for such products at trade centers." the prevention and cure of tuberculosis The first group of articles deals directly among children," has been published as with systems of marketing many farm pro- Public health bulletin no. 58 of the U. S. ducts, each being dealt with specifically; Public health service. illus. 15 p. 1912. the second group is concerned with reports Publio utilities-Regulation. of producers' co-operative marketing asso- The opinion of Max Thelen, Attorney for 64 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

the Railroad commission of the .State of Gal- all the states," Tables, diagrams. 32 p. ifornia on "Powers of Railroad commission Sugar industry. and incorporated cities and towns over pub- At the request of Senator Lodge, Truman lic utilities," dated May 2, 1912, has been The subject is consid- G. Palmer prepared a series of charts and printed separately. other data concerning the sugar i~~dustry ered under the fol~owlngheads: 1, The line which have been printed by Congress as of demarcation; 2, Powers vested in incor- Senate document no. 890, 62d Congress, 2d porated cities and towns; 3, Powers vested ses., under the title "Sugar at a glance; in the Railroad commission. An appendix Charts and data corlcerning national econo- is added in which are digested the powers my and the high cost of living as affected conferred by the va~iousFreeholders' char- by the increased yield of other crops when ters of the state over public utilities owned grown in rotation with sugar beets." sq. Q. or operated by private corporations, asso- 42 charts, 69 pages. ciations or individuals. 37 p. 1912. Typhus fever. Refuse disposal. In Bulletin no. 86 of the Hygienic labora- The symposium in the December, 1912 edi- tory of the U. S. Public health service, the tion of the American journal of public health is on "Refuse disposal." The papers se~ies of papers on experimental typhus which have appeared in the past year in of the eight contributors on the subject form a well rounded discussion of the various the Public health reports, are brought to- gether under the title "Collected studies on methodr and problems of public and pri- typhus." Short lists of references accompany vate refuse diaposal. p. 909-946. several of 'the articles. 138 p. 1912. Roads-Federal aid. A preliminaly report on "Good roads" submitted to the Joint committee of Congress BIBLIOGRAPHIES on federal aid in the construction of post Agricultural co-operation. roads, by Jonathan Bourne, jr., Jan. 14, A list on "Agricultural co-operation in Wis- 1913, contains a brief discussion of govern- consin," comp. by Jillson, March, ment road construction in various foreign W. E. countries and ddta from the different states 1912, is part of the advance sheets issued of this country obtained from responses re- by the Wisconsin State board of public af- fairs on "Agricultural co-operation." p. ceived to inquiries sent out to the State gov- 129-132. ernors asking for their views on federal aid in road making and for a brief state- Agricultural credit. ment of the highway laws of their states. In the foot-notes to an article in the Ameri- All this information, both for foreign coun- can economic review of December, 1912, tries and for this country as a whole is "Agricultural credit in the United States," arranged on a chart which completes the by P. W. Kemmerer, the foot-notes contain- report. 80 p. ing references to sources are numerous Sahool playgrounds. enough to constitute a selected bibliography The Report of the Departmental commit- on this subject, which is at present so gcn- tee of the Great Britain Board of education erally discussed. p. 852-72. "appointed to inquire into certain questions Agricultural education. in connection with the playgrounds of pub- The United States Bureau of education lists lic elementary schools," issued in 1912, com- its recent publications on the subject of ag- prises: the Report proper, including a sum- ricultural education, in its Bulletin, 1912, mary of its recommendations; a list of wit- no. 6, wh. no. 474, LLAgriculturaleduca- nesses; abstracts of evidence; and six ap- tion in secondary scllool; papers read at pendiceb. The Committee makes recom- the second Annual meeting of the Ameri- mendations for playgrounds of new scl~ools can association for the advancement of ag- in regard to shape, separation of boys and ricultural teaching, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. girls, size, provision for games, leduction of 14, 1911." p. 52-3. size where site is expensive; and for exist- Bibliographies from the Library of the Eng- ing scl~ools,in regard to space for physical lish Patent office. exercises, and enlargement of buildings ; and The Free public library of the Patent office that after 1920 and 1925, playgrounds of in London, issues in the form of small book- certain size shall be classed "insufficient," lets, subject lists often quite extensive of and, generally, that roof playgrounds be ac- material in that library on topics that are ceptable. 171 p. of particular interest to its class of readers. School systems. Some of the subjects on which these lists "A comparative study of public school have been compiled are: Horology; Military systems in the folty-eight states," is a re- and naval arts including marine engineer- cent publication from the Division of edu- ing; Mineral industries; Aerial navigation cation of the Russell Sage foundation, "de- and meteorology; Chemistry including al- signed to make available to legislators, chemy, electrochemistry, and radioactivity; school workers, and others interested, sa- Chemical technology; Peat, destructive dis- lient facts concerning school conditions in tillation, artificial lighting, mineral oils and SPECIAL LIBRARIES

waxes, .gas-lighting and acetylene; Laws of of the Carnegie institution of Washington industr~al property (patents and trade has published in pamphlet form a second marks) and copyright; Agriculture, rural edition of its "Bibliography" of its studies economy and allied sciences; Heat ar~dheat wllich are grouped in the following classes: engines; Domestic economy, foods and bev- lndcx of stale documents; Monographs,. pub- erages; Textile industries and wearing ap- lished; Articles published in Periodicals; parel, ctc. Monographs, unpublished. 17 p. Dec., 1912. Birds. Education. An "Index to papers relating to the food of The Reference and Children's departments birds, by members of the Biological survey, of the Louisville free public library com- in publications of the U. S. Department of piled for the Kentucky education association agriculture, 1885-1911," has been compiled meeting, June 25-7, 1912, a L'Selected list of by W. L. McAtee and is publisl~edaa Bul- books on education, wit11 annotations." The letin no. 43 of the U. S. Biological survey. material is grouped under: General; His- The index proper is preceded by an anno- tory; Theory; Method; Administration; tated bibliography oI the papers, arranged Elementary; Rural schools; Educational by number of the issue, in groups of bulle- journals. nar. T. 20 p. tins, circulars, etc. 69 p. Efioiency. Child study. The second issue of the Bulletin of the Effi- A "Bibliography of child study for the years ciency society contains a "Bibliography of 1910-1911," compiled by Clark university li- efficiency," whirh deals for the most part, brary, Worcester, Mass., is printed as Bul- with general books on the subject and more letin, 1912, no. 26, wh. no. 498 of the U. specific refe~ences on shop management, as S. Bureau of education. 90 p. the first branch of efficiency to be developed. Children-Exceptional. It is proposed to issue in the Bulletin fur- A valuable addition to the bibliography on ther efficiency bibliograpl~ies dealing with recent phases of education is the "Bibliogra- efficiency along specialized linea. p. 8-11, phy of exceptional children and their edu- Nov., 1912. cation," by Arthur McDonald, which is pub- Epileptics. lished by the U. S. Bureau of education as The report of the Illinois committee of fifty its Bulletin, 1912, no. 32, wh. no. 506. The on epilepsy contains a bibliography on the articles listed are divided as follows: pub- soc~alaspects of the disease. p. 45-7. 1913. lications in the English language; refer- Explosives-Coal mines. ences to special classes published in city On page 108 of Bulletin 15 of thc U. S. school reports; publicatic~ns in foreign lan- Bureau of mines. "Investigation of ex- guages; periodicals. An author index is plosives used in coal mines," arc listed the also included. 46 p. Bureau of mines publications on mine ac- Children-Preoocity. cidents and tests of explosives. A study of "Precocious children," by Katll- Fecble-minded. erine B. Dolbear in the Pcdago ical semin- Library bulletin No. 7 of the New Sork a,ry, DCC., 1~12,concludes witda reading scl~oolof philanthropy, Sept., 1912, is a se- list of 63 entries OII thc subject of the es- lected list or1 "Feel~le-mir~detlchildren, edu- say. p. 189-91. cation and t~aming," tlividcd lnto general Clty planning. references, references under valious Euro- The "P~ogramof a competition for the pro- pean countty I~cadingsand a list of reference curing of a scheme of tlevelopn~e~~tfor a works. 3 p. quarter section of land within the limits of Forestry. the city of Chicago," published by the City l'he Libra1.y of the U. S. Department of ag- Club of Chicago, which proposes to exhibit ricultu~cIlas issued as its Hullctin nu. 76, the successful plans at their Housing exhi- a "Catalogue of publications relating to bition to be held in March, 1913, ir~cludes forest~y," in the Library, which was pre- as a convenience and aid to the competitors, pared with the co-operation of the Forest a brief selected bibliography devoted princi- service, and supersedes Bulletin no. 24 pub- pally to the garden city and suburb move- lished in 1898. The catalogue consists of a ment in Cleat Britain and . classified list and an alphabetical author ill- dex. 302 p. Co-operative marketing. Geology-North America. The advance sheets from the Wisconsin The "Bibliog~aphy of North American ge- State board of public affairs on "Agricul- ology for 1911, with subject index," by tural co-operation'' (part I, of t,he Report John M. Nickles is the fifth yearly volume of upon co-operation and marketing) contains this nature which has been issued by the also a bibliography on "Co-operation and United States Geological survey. Publica- co-opetative marketing In the United tions on the gcology of North America, its States," compiled by W. E. Jillson, Mch., adjoining islands, Panama and the Ha- 1912. p. 122-129. waiian Islands, papers on geology, text Economics and sociology. books and general papers by Amcri- The Department of economics and sociology cans are included. The serials examined SPECIAL LIBRARIES

numbered about 150. 162 P. 1912. (Bul- from 1900 to 1912, is published as Bulletin 1912, no. 29, wh. no. 503 of the U. S. Bu- -letin 524.) reau of education. The bibliography in- nigh school pupils-Reading. cludes articles appearing in periodicals and T~ an article contributed to the Dec., 1912 books relating directly to the teaching of number of the pedagogical seminary, by mathematics, but excludes text-books. 95 p. Roxanna E. Anderson, "A preliminary study Mines and mining. of tile reading tastes of high school pupils,'' The Mines branch of the Canadian Depart- there is by the author a brief bibli- ment of mines has published varioua tech- ography on the subject. P- 459-60. nical reports, monographs, bulletins, sur- Immigration-Chinese. veys, maps, etc., since its cleation in 1907, R. E. Cowan and Dunlap Boutwell are the a catalogue of which has been issued, in- compilers of a 68 page "Uibliography of the cluding also early publications of the Super- cllinese question in the United States," pub- intendent of mines. 135 p. 1912. lished in Sari Francisco in 1909. The list Nurses. is alphabetical by author and includes books, The last volume (v. 4) of "A history of pamphlets and similar publications and does nursing from the earliest times to the pres- not included newspaper articles or United ent day with special reference to the work States government documents. of the past thirty years,,' edited and in part Immigration-Slavs. written by Lavinia L. Dock, contains a bib- Emily Green Balch, in her "Our SlaWc fd- lioglaphy which is "limited to material of a low citizens," includes a bibliography which propagandist or historical character or deal- contains many foreign titles. p. 483-512, ing with education in the broad sense," and 1910. is arranged in groups by countries. p. 323- Impeachment. 329. 1912. A secotld edition of the Library of Congress Psychology of justice. "Select list of references on impeachment," In an article on "The psychology of justice" was issued in August, 1912. The first edi- contributed by Tadaichi Ueda to the Sept., tion it is stated in the prefatory note, was 1912 number of the Pedagogical seminary, prepared at the time of the trial of Judge is included a three page bibliography of the Charles Swayne in 1904 and this second subject. p. 347-349. edition is issued to meet a sindar need Railroads-Qovernment ownership. occasioned by the impeachment proceedings The Bureau of railway economics has is- against Judge Robert W Archhald. The sued a "List of references to publications rterns are arranged under the subheads: pertaining to the government ownership of General ; Cases ; State impeachments ; Im- railroads," in a pamphlet of 14 pages. The peachments in foreign countries; and Cases; sources of the list, which is airanged by and an author index is appended. 38 p. author, comprise twenty libraries. Credit Income tax. for valuable assitancc in its compilation is The Librarian of the Wisconsin tax commis- aiven to the Division of biblionral~l~vof the sion contributes to the Oct., 1912 number of Library of Congress. Mch., 1?13: ' the Wisconsin library bulletin, a bibliogra- ~oecialcoflections. phy upon the income tax issue in that state. "Special collections in libraries in thc General references on income tax and spe- United States," by W. D. Johnston and I. cial references to the Wisconsin law, refer- G. Mudge, Librarian and Reference librar- ences favoring the tax, and references op- Ian, respectively, of Columbia University, posing thc tax form the three groups of the printed hy the United States Bureau of edu- list. p. 166-7. cation as its Bulletin, 1912, no. 23, wh. no. Industrial hygiene. 495, is to quote the Forewotd, lLvirtually a The American labor legislation review of new edition of 'Special collections in Ameri- June, 1912, devoted to the subject of in- can liblaries' by FV. C. Lane and C. K. dustrial diseases, contains a ''Bibliography Bolton! pu\>li~hedin 1892," and owes much on industrial hygiene," which although pub- to varlous other surveys since then of more lished as a preliminary list, covers 48 pages. local characters. Tt is impossible to list the It is divided into American titles and titles various subjects on which collectinns have other than Ameiican. been made, as reported in this work, but the Infant welfare. general headings, without their numerous subdivisions, will give some idea of the The 10th Library bulletin from the Nelv

Tuberculosis. sea~chof New York City. Dr. W. H. Allen Appendix 5 of "Care of tuberculosis wage dud Dr. Robelt Bruere are in tlie field with ealners in Germany," a bulletin of the assistunts. United States Bureau of labor, wl~oleno. 101 and no. 1 of the Workmen's insurance The following news items may be of in- and compensation beries, issued July 1, 1912, telest ' is a bibliography on the subject of the bul- A New York meeting is contemplated for letin. Naturally, a great majority of the the Manhattan Distrlct of the Association. The references are to German publications. p. matter ia in the hands of Mr. Willis 1). Porter, 173-179. President of the Ofici.il Information Bureau, Inc., 24 Stonc Street, and the date has been Woman suffrage. tgntatively set as May 15. Our New York The subjcct for the debates of 1912-13 hav- people will please take note and goveln them- ing been announced by the executive corn- selves accordingly. mittee of the Debating and declamation The Chamber of Commerce of the United league of Texas schools as "Resolved, that States of America with an address at Riggs women in Texas should be granted tlie Building, Washington, D. C., >la: recently suffrage on equal terms with men," the Bul- become a member of the asaoclatlon. Mr. letin of the University of Texas of June l, Eliott 1-1. Goodwin is the General Secretary, 1912, was devoted to "Woman suffrage; and it is fair to assume that a good corn~nercial biblingrapl~yand selected arguments," edited library may sometime become the heart of this by E. DuB. Shurte~,Secretary of the league. enterprise. The bibliography occupying the first 16 pages is divided into general, nffirmative We sul~nise from cor~espondence that Mr. and negative references. Pu~dI3 Wright of the Kansas City Public Li- brary, is fast returning to his old form. We ale glad to hear this and are not surprised that NOTES AND EVENTS he llah desired to get into close touch with The Unive~sity of Washington has estab- this movernent again. lished a bureau of legislative reference and Tlie Bureau of Labor Statistics, at Washing- last year maintained the bureau at the state tun, 11. C., has lately sent in a hubscription to capitol for the benefit of the legislature. Dr. "Special Libratics," thua indicating an inter- Herman Urauer is in clia~geand he reports a est from a new (palter. very successful operation of the buieau during the session. Orders havc receritly been ~eceivedfrom two The Universitj of Colorado, Uouldel, Cnlo- Canadian Government otlices for "Special Li- rado, also established a bureau of legisl;~tive braries." Our northern f~iends are not ap- reference ,~ndmaintained it at Denser du~ing parently lagging in interest in this association. the session. Mr. William Bethke has been They arc the Superintendent of, Fo~estryand in charge. The Geological Suivey. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, has estab- The State College of Washington, at Pull- lished a bureau of public service for church, man, Waahil~gton and the State Agricultural scl~ool, lib~ary, public health, social service, College Library, Port Collina, Coloradn, have municipal service and legislation. The scc- become members. tion of Municipal service is devoted to It is pla~ilying to note that the Gencral the small city, town and county, ebpecially urban Electric Colnp,~~~y,wl1ic11 is one of the pioneers communities under eight thousand population. among the cornrnerci;~lspecial libraries, having While especially designed fol IOW~I,Professor oprratrtl their elect~icallibra~y at Schenectady, William L. Bailey in cl~;i~geof thls section, New Yr~rl:, lor many years, has at last taken announces that inquiries will be attended to out a membe~sllipin the name of their lib~ary. from all sources. Mi

Mr. Warre11 H. Manning, Landscape Design- UTalpolc, Mass., have become inte~estedin this er of Hoston, and one of the few large men association through membe~sliip. in this field; lias ~ecentlg identified himself nitll this assuciatilln. Mr. ~:lnni~~has pli- Mi" Geo~ge~ieL. Miller is in charge of the vate library of lalge l,ropoltions at his country Forest Service Lib~aryof the United States house in Bille~ica,Mass. He is a collector DWt. of Agliculture, Beck Bldg., portland, of wide sco,,e arlll is iIlterested in metllods of Oregorl arid has recently joined the association. handline museum materials. The nature of his wi(c practice, taking him to all parts of M~~~ of our will be interested in tlie United Stdtes, has stimulated his natulal a new book recelltly issued called i$~~~~~~~ collecting propensities. 'I'lia~ Make Good," edited by Poole al~dBuz- We have a new member in the person of zell. Especially will the commercial librarians Mr. M. L. Scudder of the Investors' Agency, and thosk whose activities bolder upon advel- Inc, 55 Wall Street, Newf York City. tising and publicity work be glad to know something about it. It was written by seven The Social Service Lib~ary, recently estab- Ie'tding advertising experts and contair~s 306 lished at 18 Somerset Street, Boston, has taken over the old Children's Aid Society Library. of the best letters ever used by over 100 suc- Th~scollectioff is in charge of Miss Ethel B. cessful advertisers. Critics have called it the Ketcham and the whole undertaking is under best thing on letter writing yet published and the fostering wing of Simmons College. the careful analysis of the actual letters, alone, The United Drug Company, of 63 Leon make the book worth painstaking study by the Street, Hoston, lias recently employed Arthur man who wishes to develop the ability to write D. Little, Inc., to assist in tlie organization and pulling lettels. The plan, the data, the mes- systemizing of a commercial libra~yof drug sage, tlie style, the opening, the body and the merchandizing and advertising. This adds closing ale all c~iticallydiscussed. 'The complete another commercial library to the growing list, reproduct~on of the successful letters them- and indicates the increasing appreciation on selves fulnislies a compendium on typesetting the part of manufacturers of the value of a and choice of printing forms. The actual re- special collection within their own works. sults and full particulars as to conditions arc given in many cases by those who used them. The Forbes Library, under the supervision This book will interest the small house or the of J. L. Harrison, at Northampton, M-ass., has large concern. It is not theoretical, but prac- recently become identified with our work. tical. The Secretary's office continues to sell "The It is published by the American Business City Planning Bibliograpliy," both in single Book Co., 251 Causeway Street, Boston, Mass. numbers atld lots of twenty-five, showing the wide-spread interest which has followed this About May firbt the Haryard School of Land- unique publication. scape Architecture will issue its Tentative Clas- Mr. R. H. Johnston, of Washington, D. C., sificatio~)Scheme covering the field of City Plan- has been appointed Chairman of tpe Program nmg, which has been in preparation since the Committee for the coming annual meeting, and establishment of its Special Reference Library in we shall look forward to an epicurean feast 1911. The acherne is Intended not only to provide of ideas and wisdom prepared hy Mr. Johns- fol the classification of reference miiterids- ton. books, pamphlets, maps, plans, photographs, The Secreta~y'soffice co~itinuesto receive ap- plates, and post cards-in the Library, but also plications from able people in the library world to serve as a basis fo~tlie airangement of notes for advanced positions. Large institutions like and utlie~ professional data. It will be used public libraries, or co~nrnercial concetm work- in classifying the titles in the Bibliography of ing into this new field will make no mistake City Planning now being compiled jointly by in applying to the Secretary for assistance in the Library of Congress and the School of finding persons properly equipped for then ac- which a Check List appeared in the May, 1912 tual needs. number of "Special Libraries." It has further interest in suggesting aspects of the field on We should not forget to introduce to our which as yet little has been published. The membership the Budapest Municipal Library, scheme is constructed on the general principles Budapest, Hungary and the Hoofdkantoor, of the Llbrary of Congress Classification, which Leidschestl aatweg, Levensverzekering-Maats- was found to contain no adequate prowision for chappig, Utrecht, Holland. It is always in- the particular field of City Planning. A similar teresting to bring forward new nationalities. scheme for Landscape Architecture, in which Among other commercial libraries, Lockwood, also tlie Library of Congress scheme is deficient, Green & Co., of 60 Federal Street, Boston, the has been developed by the School and zvill be well-known textile engineers, have become issued later. identified with the library world through the The City Planning scheme, to be published development of their new library department. by the University, may be ordered in advance, or obtained from the Harvard University Press, The Plymoutl~ Cordage Co., of North Ply- Cambridge, Massachusetts, at fifty cents a copy, mouth, Mass., and F. W. Bird & Son of East as soon as issued.