50 ALFRED YEAR-BOOK, 1902-03

with the same generous sentiments toward the University, have realized his plan for the building by deeding it to the University.

Gifts-Alfred Theological Seminary

UNIVERSITY

OF

THE STATE OF NEW YORK: Set of Regents Reports.

MRS. A. A. LEWIS, Alfred, N. Y.: "Comprehensive Com- mentary" and supplement; 6 Vois.

MRS. ORVILLE D. WILLIAMS, Alfred, N. Y.: The Library of her late husband, the Rev. Orville D. \VilIiams of Colorado; num- ber of volumes not vet known.

ETHAN LANPHEAR. See" Bequests" above.

Gifts-Department of Physics

MR. ADRIAN LAFOIWE OF NEW YORK ClTY has presented the department with an instrument designed to explain the lavl' of rotation of the earth, viz., Bohnenberger,s Maschinen, manufactured by Max Kohl, at Chemmtz, Germany.

Gifts-Library

MR. JOHN J. BABCOCK, 1857-58, of Ashaway, R.

1.,

has to the library files of several publications and a number of books from the collection made by his father ami mothet', J ^aCClb D.

Babcock and Elizabeth Almy Babcock, late of Ashaway, deceased,

\>~iz:

The New York Tribune. The lile begins January 25, 1859, and continues to the end of February, 1884. It is the semi-weekly edition, excepting the period beginning July

I.

r86r, and ending with the year r865, (Civil War period,) which is covered by the daily edition; some few numbers of the paper are missing. however.

An effort is being made to complete the file from the first number of the paper to date, that is to say. to procure the

number~

before 1859 and after February, 1884. as well as those that are missitw from the file contributed by Mr. Babcock. Those able to assist in completing the file are requested to communicate with H. G. Whipple,

²²⁰

Broadway, New York City.

vVhen completed and bound, this file of papers will make an

important and very valuable addition to the facilities of the library,

as it will contain in considerable detail all matters of importance

GIFTS

51 which transpired in this and other countries during the period covered by the file, also comment on current events, discussions of questions of great public interest, including the edItorials of Horace Greeley, which we1'e so influential in moulding public opinion in this country during the period r841-72, together with a mass of miscellany which can be found nowhere else so readily as in a great metropolitan newspaper.

The National Era. This was the only Anti-Slavery news- paper published in Washington. It was a weekly paper, edited by Gamaliel Bailey assisted by John G. Whittier, the poet.

The file begins with 1847 and ends in 1860, the year 1852 and an occasional number are mis!ling, however.

The Emancipator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison. The file covers a little more than a year. Those able to assist in com- pleting the file of this paper and that of the National Era are re- quested to communicate with Mr. Whipple.

The ChrisNan

[hziol1.,

for the years r871, 2, 3, 4. -, 6,7,8, 1880 and parts of the years r890,

I, -,

3, 4.

The New York bulepemient. a file nearly complete for five years.

Books a?lti Pamphlets, 'lliz: ..

A Call to a Devout and Holy Life," William La\y; .. Abyssinia," Rev. Samuel Gobat;" Prophecy,"

James A. Begg; " Tournai" of Lorenzo Dow; "History of Religion,"

David Benedict .. Sermons," Rey. Samuel Hassard; "Sermons,"

Henry \Vard Beecher; Spurgeon's "Sermons;" "Memoirs and Sermons" of Rev. George Whitefield; "Life of Christ," William Bolles; "Life of Christ," Paul Wright; "Memoir" of Rev. Damel H. Gillette; "Logic," Isaac Watts; "Saint's Rest,"" A Call to the Unconverted," Rev. Richard Baxter; "YOllthful Piety," Thomas Evans: "Jacob's Ladder;" "The Book of Jonah," Rev. Alex.

Macpherson; "A Guide for Young Disciples," Rev. J. G. Pike;

" Tracts on the Sabbath;" " The Sabbath," Robert Burnside; "Dis- courses," Samuel Stennett; " History of Baptism," Robert Robinson;

.. Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches,"" MemOIr of Rev.

Adoniram Judson,"

²

Vol., "Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons,"

Francis Wayland; "Missionary Tour of Rev. James

L.

Scott;"

" Night Thoughts." Edward Young; "An Offering of Sympathy to the Afflicted;" "Debates on the Judiciary;"" Music and MusiCians,"

Ignatz Moscheles; "John Quincy Adams," W. H.Seward; Quincy's

"Lexicon Physico-Medlcum Improved," 1802; "Useful Facts.

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Figures and Hints;" "The Reporter's Companion," (Stenography,) Benn Pitman and R. P. Prosser; Fowler's "Phrenology;"" The Liquor Traffic, S. D. Hastings; Parson Brownlow's Book; " Scenes in the Old Dommion," Pocahontas; .. Life cf Pauline Cushman."

F. L. Sarmiento; "Helps over Hard Places for Boys," Lynde Palmer.

MRS. LuCY B. SAUNDERS, widow of Nathan Saunders, of Potter Hill, R. I., has presented the following, viz:

The Republican Advocate. A weekly newspaper published at New London, Conn. The file begins in April, 1823, and continues to February 1826.

The Rhode Island Schoolmastet', for 1863. a monthly magazine published at Providence, R.

I.

THE EDWARD THOMPSON COMPANY (Publisher.) North- port. Long Island, has presented to the library a set of the American and Euglish Encyclopedia of Law, First Edition, 31 volumes, (including index of

2

VoL) of about

1,100

pages each.

This work is well and favorably known to all lawyers; but it may be of interest to others to know that it covers the whole body of modern law. The law has been divided into such titles as seem capable of separate treatment, and the titles arranged alphabetically so as to facilitate reference. The text consists of a concrete, though full and clear, statement of the law, copiously annotated with citations to cases decided by the higher courts, including frequent extracts from the judges' opinions. By reason of the practical arrangement of the work and its comprehensive scope, the student is enabled to find the law upon any and every subject in which he may be interested, in the shortest possible time. The gift will be of inestimable value to the library.

HERBERT G. WHIPPLE, A. D. '87, New York, has donated the following books:

"B;blisch-Aramaischen Sprache," D. Karl Marti (Berlin);

" Aramaic Grammar," Part II, Brown; .. Chrestomathy of Arabic Prose-Pieces;" Dr. R. Brunnow (Berlin); Xenophon's ': Anabasis,"

John J. Owen, "Herodotus," VoL II. Joseph W. Blakesley;" Ovid's Metamorphosis," Moritz Haupt (Berlin); .. Cicero's Orations,"

Schmitd & Zumpt; " Livy," Book I. H. M. Stephenson; "Sallust's

Catiline," Adam Eussner; (Lipsia:);" Latin Prosody," Casserly; "Ex-