REPORT OF TIÍE LIBRARIAN OF THE STATE LIBRARY, FOR THE TEAR ENDINO SEPTEMBER 30, 1863. BOSTON: WEIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, No. 4 SPRING LANE. 1 8 6 4. TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LIBRARY. GEORGE LIVERMORE, Esq., Cambridge. JAMES A. Dix, Esq., Boston. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, Esq., Boston. JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE OF TIIE LEGISLATURE, FOR 1803. Messrs. HORACE P. WAKEFIELD, . Reading, ROBERT CRAWFORD, Deerfield ASIIER JOSLIN, Webster, Messrs. DANIEL DAY, . Lanesborough, DAVID BREMNER, Rockport, INCREASE S. LINCOLN, Warwick, JOSEPH WHITE, Librarian ex officio. SAMUEL C. JACKSON, Acting Librarian. S. F. SNOW, ( Assistants. C. R. JACKSON, \ €ommonujcflItI) of iltaissacljusctts. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. To the Honorable Legislature of Massachusetts : The Librarian of the State Library, in accordance with the General Statutes, Chap. 5, Sect. 8, presents the following as his Annual Report. ADDITIONS TO THE STATE LIBRARY From October 1, 1862, to September 30, 1863. RECEIVED BY PURCHASE. VOLUMES. Commentaries on the Law of Agency. By Joseph Story, LL. D. 6th Edition, by Edmund H. Bennett. Boston, 1863. 1 Vermont Reports, 1789, 1790 and 1791. By Nathaniel Chip- man. Rutland, 1793 1 Vermont Reports. By Daniel Chipman. Vol. II. Middle- bury, 1824 1. Vermont Reports. By Asa Aikens. 1825-1828. Windsor, 1827, '28 2 Vermont Reports. By William Brayton. Middlebury, 1821. 1 Vermont Supreme Court Reports. Vols. 1, 2, 4; St. Albans, 1829, '30, '33 3 Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon. By Sir J. Emer- son Tennent. London, 1861. ...... ] Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary. By B. J. Totten. New York, Lives of the Engineers. By Samuel Smiles. London, 1861, '62. Instruction for Naval Light Artillery, Afloat and Ashore. 2d Ed., revised by Lieut. S. B. Luce. New York, 1862. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunei. By Richard Beamish. London, 18C2. ....... A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery. Compiled by Capt. J. G. Benton. New York, 1862 Democracy in America. By Alexis De Tocqueville. Trans- lated by Henry Beeve. Edited, with Notes by Francis Bowen. Cambridge, 1862. The Golden Hour. By Moncure D. Conway. Boston, 1862. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army. New York. Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861. Philadelphia, 1862. Regulations and Instructions for the Field Service of the United States Cavalry in Time of War. By Geo. B. McClellan. Phdilaelphia, 1861. Nolan's System for Training Cavalry Horses. By Kenner Garrard. New York, 1862. ...... Health : its Friends and its Foes. By R. D. Mussey, M. D. Boston, 1862 . Maxims, Advice and Instructions on the Art of War. Trans- lated from the French by Captain Lendy. Philadelphia, 1863 . Instruction for Field Artillery. Philadelphia, 1863.. Notes on Screw Propulsion. By W. M. Walker. New York, 1861 History of the United States Naval Academy. By Edward C. Marshall. New York, 1862. Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. By W. Pembroke Fetridge. New York. Paris, 1862. The Old Merchants of New York City. By Walter Barrett. New York, 1863 Manual for Engineer Troops. By Capt. J. C. Duane. New York, 1862 The Militiaman's Manual and Sword-Play without a Master. New York, 1861 Lessons and Practical Notes on Steam. By W. II. King. New York. London, 1862 VOLUMES. Treatise on Military Law and the Practice of Courts Martial. By Capt. S. V. Benêt. New York, 1862 1 Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Ball's Bluff Prisoner, Lieut. Win. C. Harris. Philadelphia, 1862 1 Hints on the Medical Examination of Recruits for the Army. By Thomas Henderson, M. D. New Edition, revised by Richard II. Coolidge, M. D. Philadelphia, 1856. • . 1 United States Infantry Tactics. By Lieut. Col. II. B. Wilson. Philadelphia, 1862 1 The Farmer's Calendar. By Arthur Young. 2d Edition. Lon- don. New York, 1862. ....... 1 Discourse on the Life, Character and Policy of Count Cavour. By Lorenzo Botta. New York, 1862 1 Handy-Book for the United States Soldier. Philadelphia, 1862. 1 Rhymed Tactics, by " Gov. " New York, 1862. ... 1 Precis of the Wars in Canada from 1755 to the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. By the late Maj. Gen. Sir James Carmiehael Smyth. London, 1862. ....... 1 History of the Colonial Empire of Great Britain. By Brown II. E. Roberts. London, 1861 1 The History of Rome. By Theodor Mommsen. London, 1862 2 History of the War of the Independence of the United States. By Charles Botta. Translated from the Italian, by George Alexander Otis. New Haven, 1842 2 A Manual of Pension Bounty and Bounty Land Laws. Wash- ington, 1862 1 Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir Charles Napier. By Maj. Gen. Elers Napier. London, 1862. .... 2 Géographie de la France et de ses Colonies. Par M. Adolphe Guerard. Paris, 1861 1 Traité de droit politique et de diplomatie appliqué a l'état actuel de la France et de l'Europe. Par G. B. Battur. Paris, 1822. 2 The Provisional Remedies of the Code of Procedure. By Murray Hoffman. New York, 1862. ..... 1 The War Powers of the President, and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery. By William Whiting. Boston, 1862 1 Institutes of International Law. By Daniel Gardner. New York, 1860 The Military Laws of the United States. By. John F. Callaii. Philadelphia, 1863 Memoirs of tiie War in the Southern Department of the United States. By Henry Lee. Washington, 1827. Memoirs pour servir a l'lii-toi-ie de la Revolution de Saint Domirigue. Par Lieut. Gen. Baron Painphile de Lacroix. Paris, 1819 Annals of the Wars of the 19th Century. By Hon. Sir Ed- ward Gust. 1800-15. London, 1862,'63 Dictionary of Every-Day DilHculties. Bv Edward Sheltou. London. .......... Camp and Out-Post Duty for Infantry. By Daniel Butterfield. New York, 1862 The Siege of Richmond. By Joel Cook. Philadelphia, 1862. Official Report to the United States Engineers' Department of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia. By Brig. Gen. Q. A. Gillmore. New York, 1862 Sketch of the Mode of Manufacturing Gunpowder at the Isha- pore Mills in Bengal. By Col. William Anderson. Lon- don, 1862 Landmarks of History. London, 1860, '62 Aide-Memoir to the Military Sciences. 2d Ed. London, 1862. Principles of Gunnery. By John T. Ilvde. 2d Ed. London, 1862 The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of his life. By Samuel Gilman Brown. (2 copies.) Boston, 1862. Essays. By Henry Thomas Buckle. New York, 1863. A Catechism adapted lo the latest Edition of the Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry. By Lieut. Col. J. E. Robertson. London, 1862. ..... Metallurgy. By John Percy. London, 1861. Seamanship. By Lieut. George S. Nares. London. The Manual of Dates. By George II. Townsend. London, 1862 The Results of Emancipation. By Augustus Cochin. Trans- lated by Mary L. Booth. Boston, 1863 Origin and History of the English Language. By George P. Marsh. New York, 1862 Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862. By Adam Gurowski. Boston, 1862 Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to Secession. By J. M. Ludlow. Cambridge. London, 1862. VOLUMES. Life of Andrew Jackson, condensed. By James Parton. New York, 1863 " 1 The Armies of Europe. By Geo. B. MeClellan. Philadelphia, 18G2 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court Reports. By Abram I). Smith. Vol. 5. New York, 1857 1 History of King Philip's War. By the Rev. Increase Mather, D. D. Boston, 1862 1 Origin and Significance of Scottish Surnames. By Clifford Stanley Sims. Albany, 1862. ...... 1 Prehistoric Man. By Daniel Wilson. Cambridge. London, 1862 2 Illustrated History of the Panama Railroad. By F. N. Otis, M. D. New York, 1862 L Memoir of Nathaniel Emmons. By Edwards A. Park. Bos- ton, 1861 1 On Taxation. By Leone Levi. London, 1860. ... 1 The Black Man. By William Wells Brown. New York, 1863. 1 The Resources of Turkey. By J. Lewis Farley. London, 1862. 1 Autobiography of the Emperor Charles V. The English Trans- lation by Leonard Francis Simpson. London, 1862. 1 Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances. By P. S. Sim- mons. London, 1862. ....... 1 Ragged Life in Egypt. By M. L. Whately. London, 1862. 1 Manual of Metallurgy. By John Arthur Phillips. London. Glasgow, 1854. ....... 1 The Correlation of Physical Forces. By W. R. Grove. 3d Edition. London, 1855. ....... 1 Letters from the Slave States. By James Sterling. London, 1857 1 The English Language. By R. G. Latham. 5th Edition. Lon- don, 18.62. 1 The Genealogy of Creation. By Henry F. A. Pratt, M. D. London, 1861. ......... 1 Some Account of the Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey. By Lieut. Gen. Hon. C. Grey. London, 1861. 1 Works of William E. Channing, D. D. Boston, 1856. 6 Calendar of State Papers. 1625-29. London, 1858,'59. 3 The Story of the Guard. By Jessie Benton Fremont. Boston, 1863. 1 Manual of Geology. By James D. Dana, LL. D. Philadel- phia. London, 1863. ........ 1 Modern War : its Theory and Practice. By Emeric Szabad. New York, 1863 1 A Treatise on the Law of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange. By Theophilus Parsons, LL. D. Philadelphia, 1863 2 National Education in Europe. By Henry Barnard, LL. D. New York, 1854 1 The Massachusetts Teacher. 1861-2. Vols. 14, 15. Boston, 1861,'62 2 My Diary North and South. By William Howard Russell. Boston, 1863. 1 Elements of Military Art and History. By Ed. De La Barre Duparcq. New York, 1863. ...... 1 Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy and Insolvency. By Fran- cis Ililliard. Philadelphia, 1863 1 The Boston Almanac, 1863. By George Coolidge. Boston, 1863 1 History of Delaware County, Penn. By George Smith, M. D. Philadelphia, 1862 1 Digest of New York Statutes and Reports from the earliest Pe- riod to the Year 1860.