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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.

French.

N. Y., Cassell & Co., 1881 $1.50
A good general French dictionary.

Latin.

N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1879 Net, $6.50
The standard reference book for scholars.

Art.

703 Clements, Clara E.Handbook of legendary and mythological art. Enlarged ed., fully illustrated.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881 $3
Very good for brief and concise reference work.

Music.

N. Y., Scribner's Sons, 1893, 3 vols. Net, $16
Descriptive, theoretical and biographical.

Literature.

N. Y., Peale & Hill, 1896, 30 vols. $66
Biographical notice of all writers of importance, together with copious extracts from their writings, covering every department of literature.

Quotations.

Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1897 cl., $3
A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their source in ancient and modern literature.
N. Y., C. L. Webster, 1890; later published by W. E. Benjamin, N. Y., 11 vols. cl., set, $33.