GENERAL: Athenæum } (Annotated) } Literary World } Publishers’ Circular } Weekly and monthly, most of Saturday Review } them giving a summary list Nation (London) } of new books, reviews, and Spectator } advertisements. Times Literary Supplement } (Annotated) } Bookman. Bookseller. Book Monthly. A.L.A. Book List. (Annotated.) Nation (New York). Publishers’ Weekly (New York). SPECIAL: Nature (scientific books generally). English Mechanic (technical books) Engineer (technical books). Current Foreign books can readily be found in the lists issued by Brockhaus, Hachette, Williams & Norgate, Dulau, etc. In addition to the very uncertain and unsatisfactory method of thus choosing new books by their titles, because it amounts to very little else, some arrangement is required whereby libraries can obtain non-fictional books on view, so that they can be properly examined before being ordered. Publishers are generally willing to submit new publications to librarians through their booksellers, and visits to large book stores should be made frequently. A good plan is for a public library to maintain one or two subscriptions with a large commercial circulating library, through which new books may be read or examined. =204.= The best guides to the titles of old books, which, of course, include modern books other than recent publications, will be found in Appendix II., p. 507. Here again, no doubt owing to the largeness of the field, notes in aid of choice are badly wanted. Nelson’s and Sonnenschein’s books are the best in this respect, if the special annotated lists in the latter are excepted. BIBLIOGRAPHY =205. General:= Bascom, E. L. Book Selection. _In_ A.L., Man. of Lib. Econ. Preprint of chapter xvi., 1915. Bisseker, H. (_Ed._). Students’ Library, 1911. Kelly. Brown, J. D. The Small Library, 1907. Routledge. Cutter, W. P. Report of the A.L.A. Committee on Book-buying. A.L.A. Bulletin, vol. iv., p. 506. 1910. Dana, J. C. Book Selection. _In his_ Library Primer, 1910, p. 43. Fletcher, W. T. Selection and Purchase of Books. _In his_ Public Libraries in America, p. 68. Spofford, A. R. Book for all Readers, 1909. Putnam. Wheatley, H. B. How to Form a Library, 1902. Stock. =206. Special:= Kroeger, A. B. Guide to the Study of Reference Books. Coe, E. M. Fiction [With list of articles]. U.S. Education Rept., 1892-93, vol. i., p. 933. Great Fiction Question. Greenwood’s Year-Book, 1897, p. 107. Library Association. Public Libraries and the Distribution of Embossed Books to Local Blind Readers, 1913. Richardson, E. C. Reference Books. U.S. Education Dept., 1892-93, vol. i., p. 976. For articles, see Cannons, G. 1-24, Book Selection. CHAPTER XIV ACCESSION METHODS