Valuable Gifts to the Library

The University Library has lately received from the Russian Government, through the hands of the Hon. G. von L. Meyer '79, American Ambassador to Russia, the publications of the first general census of Russia. The census was taken in 1897. The statistics of the railways of Russia for 1904 were included in the gift.

Through the generosity of Mr. E. B. Dane '92, of Boston, the Library has also recently been enabled to make many notable additions to its collections of English literature. A few of the more important of these books are: A folio of Chaucer's Works, printed for Robert Toy about 1545.

Fenton's "Certain Tragicall Discourses." First edition, 1567.

Chapman's Homer. First complete edition 1612.

First editions of Dryden's "Dramatick poesie," Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year," Shelley's "The Revolt of Islam," and "Rosalind and Helen." The latter is a presentation copy from Shelley to Leigh Hunt.