162 YEARS OLD NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY 109 UNIVERSITY PLACE TELEPHONE NUMBER, 3080 STUYVESANT Arrange to receive Society Library books at your summer address by parcel post. From June 3d to September 30th, inclusive, the Library will be closed on Saturdays at twelve M. From June 28th until August 23d, inclusive, the Library will be closed on Wednesdays at twelve M. From August 28th to September 6th, inclusive, the Library will be closed for cleaning, repairs, etc. While the Library is closed, books will be received, but no books will be given out. By order of the Board of Trustees. VOLUME 9 JUNE, 1916 NUMBER 8 HOW TO CURE SLEEPLESSNESS AT NIGHT BY AN EMINENT PRACTITIONER "Eat a moderate dinner, without stimulants. "This incident gives me an opportunity to say that observation has convinced me that all good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed. Indeed I fully believe with Judge Methuen that no book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. As for myself, I never go away from home that I do not take a trunkful of books with me, for experience has taught me that there is no companionship better than that of these friends."-(From "The love affairs of a bibliomaniac," by Eugene Field.) "Haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium præbent; delectant domi, non impediunt fortis; pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur!"-(Cicero. Pro Archia.) "I ought to state that he was in bed when we arrived, and that he remained there, clad in a handsome silk dressinggown of rich Persian pattern, propped against great snowy pillows. He loved this loose luxury and ease, and found it conducive to thought. On the little table beside him, where lay his cigars, papers, pipes, and various knick-knacks, shone a reading-lamp, making more brilliant the rich coloring of his complexion and the gleam of his shining hair. There was daylight, too, but it was north light, and the winter days were dull." "There came one day a very gentle-spoken woman who had promised that she would stay but a moment and say no more than a few words, if only she might sit face to face with the great man. It was in the morning hour before the dictations, and he received her, quite correctly clad in his beautiful dressing-robe and propped against his pillows. She kept her contract to the letter; but when she rose to go she said, in a voice of deepest reverence: 'May I kiss your hand?' It was a delicate situation, and might easily have been made ludicrous. Denial would have hurt her. As it was, he lifted his hand, a small exquisite hand it was, with the gentle dignity and poise of a king, and she touched her lips to it with what was certainly adoration. Then, as she went, she said: 'How God must love you.' 'I hope so,' he said, softly, and he did not even smile; but after she had gone he could not help saying, in a quaint, halfpathetic voice: 'I guess she hasn't heard of our strained relations.' Sitting in that royal bed, clad in that rich fashion, he easily conveyed the impression of royalty, and watching him through those marvelous mornings he seemed never less than a king, as indeed he was-the king of a realm without national boundaries. Some of those nearest to him fell naturally into the habit of referring to him as 'the King,' and in time the title crept out of the immediate household and was taken up by others who loved him."-(Mark Twain, a biography by Albert Bigelow Paine.) OUR MESSENGERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RECEIVE MONEY FOR THE LIBRARY. BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY. ADAMS, CHARLES F.-Autobiography; with a memorial address by Henry C. Lodge. O. Bost., 1916. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the life of Andrew Jackson.S. N. Y., 1828. BRENT, CHARLES H.-A master builder; life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, 1st bishop of Washington. O. N. Y., 1916. BRIDGMAN, THOMAS.-Inscriptions in the grave yards of Northampton and of other towns in the valley of the Connecticut, as Springfield, Hadley, Deerfield, etc. D. Northampton (Mass.), 1850. CHALMERS, STEPHEN. The beloved physician: Edward L. Trudeau. D. Bost., 1916. COOK, SIR EDWARD.-Delane of the Times. O. N. Y., 1916. CURRAN, JOHN ADYE.-Reminiscences. O. Lond., 1915. DARTON, F. J. HARVEY.-Arnold Bennett. D. N. Y., 1915. DUNTON, THEODORE WATTS-.-Old familiar faces. D.. N. Y., 1916. DU PARCQ, HERBERT.-David Lloyd George. D. Lond., 1915. FARRAR, GERALDINE.-Story of an American singer, by |