The Reserved Library List

THE RESERVED LIBRARY LIST

4800 VOLUMES NOT ACCESSIBLE TO GENERAL PUBLIC

Part of Them So Placed on Account of Vandalism--Catalogue Even Is Not Public

None but the faculty and those with special privileges know of the store house of good things locked up in the reserved rooms of University Library. To say nothing of the apartments containing the world's fair books, the musical collection, art photographs, the Shakespeare library, and the Goethe collection, there is a little room of general reading in which is stored away 4,800 volumes. This to students is known as the reserved library, the catalogue of which is not even accessible to the public.

Among this collection are to be found many wonderful and unique books, some of much value and some which it would be impossible to duplicate.

There are ten volumes of "The Book of the Fair," which were donated by Mrs. Bagley of Detroit. These books are about two feet square, and are splendidly photographed with everything seen at Chicago in 1892. Probably no one has ever looked through them all, and few even know of their existence here.

There is a series of fine engravings, "L'Art Tome Quatrieme," which had to be put among the reserved, because the students appropriated so many of the best pictures.

The same thing was true of "Puck," so they stand here in peace, a goodly number and unmolested, from 1841 up to the present date. There are also In this collection a 120 volume set of Scott's novels, several out of print editions of the British Poets, Mark Twain's best works, Bill Nye'a funny sayings, and Mr. Dooley in the hearts of bis countrymen. This by no mean exhausts the 4,800 volumes and perhaps are not the books most worthy of mention. There is a 1 by 1 1/2 inch volume of Dante's Divina Commedia written in Italian.