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Library Notes and News. 151 DUNDEE. At their March meeting, the Town Council approved of the scheme for establishing a branch library at Lochee, the members expressing warm gratitude for the generosity of the late Mr. T. H. Cox and his trustees, for thus providing means to enable the Committee to establish the branch in Lochee which they had long been most anxious to see erected there. In addition, there is a sum of ^4,000 to be invested, and the proceeds devoted to this branch library. FALMOUTH. A temporary Free Library was opened on April 2 by the Mayor. On April 14, Mr. J. Passmore Edwards laid the foundation stone of the public library building. A view of this appeared in the Building News of April 14. GLASGOW. A second edition of the " Concise Guide to the Mitchell Library " ha < s been issued. It contains some views of the interior, a complete list of the periodicals taken, and gives an interesting historical account of the library and its various valuable collections. It is published by Messrs. Bryce and Son, and is given away free, the cost being defrayed by advertisements. A copy is presented with this number of the LIBRARY. GLOUCESTER. An influential deputation, headed by the Dean (Dr. Spence), waited on the Council at their March meeting, and pre- sented a memorial in favour of the Corporation adopting the Public Libraries Acts. LEICESTER. On April 10, Aid. Hart (mayor of Leicester) formally opened a branch Free Library in the Belgrave district, one of the parishes added to the borough under the recent extension scheme. For the present an upper room of the Belgrave Road Coffee House is being utilised for the purpose, but this is intended only as a temporary arrange- ment. LONDON. London, in its issue of April 19, has an article on "What Londoners read," /.., " The Literary Tastes of the People as shown by an Examination into the Class of Books Read at London Free Public Libraries." A continuation of the article appears in the number for April 26. Returns are given from most of the London Public Libraries. LONDON : BRITISH MUSEUM.- In the Times of March 19 is an article on the extension of the area occupied by the Museum and its appurtenances. LONDON : CRIPPLEGATE. The St. Luke's (Middlesex) Vestry on March 20 decided to ask Cripplegate to join in a deputation to the Charity Commissioners to urge upon them the desirability of the trustees of the St. Luke's parochial charities being allowed to make a contribu- tion to the cost of the erection of the proposed Cripplegate Library, such contribution to entitle the parish to elect a representative governor of the foundation. The work, it was stated, was flagging for want of money. LONDON : GUILDHALL LIBRARY. Mr. H. H. Batten, the clerk to the City Parochial Foundation, is arranging with Mr. C. Welch, the Guildhall librarian, for the removal to, and exhibition at, that place of a number of ancient and deeply-interesting deeds relating to old City charities. It is needless to say that many of these are distinctly precious