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GERMAN LIBRARIES. 129 books not available in Rostock are asked for in Schwerin, and vice versa. The extension of the responsibility of the borrowing library differs in the different arrangements. Some of these libraries send their books free of postage and ' Bestellgeld ' for the returning books, and without any fee for packing, to small libraries and private persons throughout their State, so that the borrower has only to pay the expenses due at his place (the fee for delivery of the arriving and the postage of the returning books). In Bavaria, the books are sent ' frei durch Ablosung,' in Wurtemberg and Baden the State pays for postage and carriage. 3. OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. In addition to the special arrangements already enumerated, there are general rules and the rules of the individual libraries. The Prussian regula- tions concerning the Royal Library at Berlin, the ten University Libraries, and the Library of the Lyceum Hosianum date from 8th January, 1890, and are printed in the ' Zentralblatt,' 7, 1890, pp. 101-2, and in the 'Jahrbuch,' i, 1902, pp. 1 28-9.' Bavaria has accepted these rules as to the Hof- und Staatsbibliothek at Munich, the University Libraries of Erlangen, Munich and Wiirzburg, the Royal Libraries at Bamberg and Eichstatt, and the District Library at Augsburg (cf. the 'Jahrbuch,' i, 1902, p. 130). The same 1 By decree of 5th December, 1893, printed in the 'Zentral- blatt, 1 1, 1894, pp. 126-7, the headmasters of the grammar schools are allowed to lend manuscripts and valuable printed books subject to similar regulations.