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Kansas University Weekly.
Library.
Fifty-two volumes have been added to the Library the past week, making the number now in the accession book 25771.
The new books, as soon as they are ready for circulation, are placed for a time on the shelf above the catalog drawers, for the inspection of the students.
The departments of civil engineering, religion and mathematics are being cataloged. Civil engineering is nearly completed.
Two boxes of books from Germany have just been brought to the unpacking room. One, from F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, contains works German literature; the other, from Mayer Mueller, Berlin, contains two sets of philosophical journals.
Five volumes of The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, from 1890 to 1895 inclusive, may now be found with the reference books on the north side of the reading-room.
The American Historical Review, whose board of editors is made up of George B. Adams, Albert Bushnell Hart, John Bach McMaster, and others eminent in historical work, and The American Journal of Sociology, edited by Albion W. Small, of the University of Chicago, will hereafter regularly appear in the periodical cases.
A valuable edition of the Bible is a recent purchase. It is known as the "Wycliffe" Bible, having been translated from the Latin vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers. This is the edition edited by Rev. Josiah Forsshall and Sir Frederic Madden. It is in four folio volumes, handsomely bound in tree-calf, with gilt tooling.
The forty-eighth volume of the Dictionary of National Biography, extending from Reilly to Robins, is in its place. This is an invaluable reference work, to those looking for biographical material on great English names.
There are a number of new biographical works. The following may be noted: Froude's Carlyle, two volumes; Craik's Life of Jonathan Swift, second edition; two volumes; The Life
of Daniel Defoe, by Thomas Wright; Thackeray, a Study, by Adolphus Alfred Jack; The Life of Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay, by James K. Hosmer; The Life and Letters of James Macpherson, containing a particular account of his famous quarrel with Dr. Johnson, and a sketch of the origin and influence of the Ossianic Poems, by Bailey Saunders.
Notes.
A great addition to the sources of American history was recently made by the discovery of over 2000 unpublished letters of John C. Calhoun at his old homestead in South Carolina.
Ulrico Hoepli, the great bookseller of Milan, recently acquired and offered for sale a collection of Luther autographs. After carefully examining them however, Dr. Buchwald of Leipzig, proves them all forgeries. The fact that so great a bookman as Hoepli can be deceived shows the great skill the modern swindler has acquired.
I should like to suggest to the Economic Debating Club the following question for discussion: Resolved, "That a member of Congress can under no circumstances do his full duty." As arguments for the affirmative side the following, relating to the House of Representatives, 1. Session, 54 Congress, may be useful: Length of Session (including holidays) 192 days. Numbers of House Bills Introduced-9464. Numbers of House Joint Resolutions-201. Now of course every conscientious Congressman would want to be informed on all matters coming up. But imagine the poor fellow reading forty-eight or more bills every day, with a Joint Resolution or so thrown in, to say nothing of the investigations which some of them require, and less of the matter that may be sent over from the Senate. CARTER.
A general invitation is extended to all University young men to attend the 4 o'clock meetings at the Y. M. C.A. Sunday afternoon.
The "pledglings" and "initiates" of the Kappa Gamma fraternity will entertain the fraternity Hallow'een.