Library Notes and News. 221 as a favourable evidence, commencing in a modest way, having risen to its present proportion, and offering the facilities it does to all in search of information relating to the Colonies. It affords me great pleasure to have the privilege of proposing a vote of thanks to Sir Frederick Young, and I am sure all present will agree with me that such is due to him for his conduct in the chair. This was seconded by Mr. MACALISTER and carried, bringing to a con- clusion one of the most interesting meetings that the Association has held for a long time. IFlotes anfc 1flews. The Editor earnestly requests that librarians and others will send to him early and accurate information as to all local Library doings. The briefest record of facts and dates is all that is required. In course of time " Library Notes and News " will become of the utmost value to the historian of the Public Library movement, and it is therefore of the highest importance that every paragraph should be vouched for by local knowledge. Brief written paragraphs are better than newspaper cuttings. ABINGKDON. A plan has been formulated by the Free Library Committee for the establishment of a library and reading room, in- cluding a building to be provided out of funds to be granted by the Governors of Christ's Hospital and the Town Council. The building is expected to cost ,2,000. BIRMINGHAM. Mr. Richard Tangye, for years a member of the Public Library Committee, and of the L.A.U.K., has received the honour of Knighthood. BOURNEMOUTH. Mr. Charles Riddle, sub-librarian of Clerken- vvell Public Library, has been unanimously elected librarian of the Public Library, out of a very large number of candidates. CLOUGHTON, YORKS. On May iQth Mr. Lockwood, Q.C, M.P., opened a new reading and recreation room here and delivered an amusing address. HA WICK. Mr. George M'Nairn, assistant librarian, Edinburgh, has been elected librarian of the Public Library out of 140 applicants. He succeeds a lady librarian. LIVERPOOL. At the recent half-yearly meeting of the Court of Governors of *he Liverpool University College it was stated that all the shelves in the galleries of the library were now stocked with books. These have been purchased with the sum generously presented to the College by Mr. Henry Tate. LIVERPOOL. It is not generally known that in St. Peter's Church, Liverpool (now the Pro-Cathedral), there is a very valuable library of books. Although they consist principally of works on ancient divinity and early Church history, there are many volumes such as Bacon's Reign of Henry VII., Camden's History of the Princess Elizabeth, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, and similar works on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
