THE LIBRARY CHRONICLE. SLibrarp IRotes ant) Iflews. The Editor earnestly begs 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 vahte 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. . Bishop Macdonald, of Aberdeen, opened a two days' bazaar last month under the auspices of St. Peter's congregation, to raise funds for public library books. BURTON-ON-TRENT. By twenty votes to five the Burton Town Council, on October 3rd, resolved to adopt the Public Libraries Act of 1892, subject to the conditions that the rate shall never exceed three- farthings in the pound in any one financial year, and that the resolution shall not come into force until March 25th, 1895. More than 3,000 adults memorialised for a public library. DARWEN. On October 8th, the Mayor of Darwen (Mr. J. Cocker), opened the new building intended for Public Library, Technical and Science and Art Schools. HAWARDEN. Mr. Gladstone's library is the subject of an interest- ing little article from the pen of the Rev. Frome Wilkinson, which appeared in the Manchester Guardian of September 29th. The library consists of some 25,000 volumes housed in a neat looking building of iron and wood, situated close to Hawarden Church, and not far from the Castle. Every volume, says Mr. Wilkinson, has been put in its place by Mr. Gladstone himself, and there are still some 6,000 volumes to come down from the Castle. JEDBURG-H. The Free Library was opened by Mr. Andrew Carnegie on October 4th. LEIG-H. Lord Derby, on September 26th, opened the new Tech- nical School and Free Library, which has been constructed at a cost of nearly ; 13,000. His lordship referred to the remarkable growth within recent years of technical education in Lancashire, which had now taken hold of all classes of the people.
