_Hagerstown._ Washington County Free Library. Gift of $50,000 and accrued interest $1250, from B. F. Newcomer, of Baltimore, the town to furnish a site for building, which will cost about $25,000. MASSACHUSETTS. _Amherst._ Amherst College. Gift of $500, to form a fund for the purchase of Spanish books, from Hon. John S. Brayton, of Fall River, Mass. _Bolton._ Parker Library. Devise of a dwelling house and one-half acre of land, on condition that within one year from the allowance of the will the town shall establish a free public library to be known as the Parker Library, from Louisa Parker. _Boston._ Lang Memorial Library. Gift of a free public library of musical scores, founded by B. J. Lang, as a memorial to Ruth Burrage. -- Public Library. Bequest of $4000, from Abram E. Cutter. -- Gift of 599 volumes of text-books used in the public schools of Boston, from the Boston School Committee, in co-operation with the publishers. -- Gift of 597 volumes, relating to music, scores, etc., from Allen A. Brown. -- Gift of 576 volumes, relating to music, including operas, oratorios, collections of school and college song books, etc., from The Oliver Ditson Co. _Cambridge._ Harvard University. Bequest of $10,000, to increase fund, already established by him, for purchase of works of history, political economy, and sociology, from ex-Governor Roger Wolcott. -- Gift of $1250, for purchase of books relating to the history of the Ottoman Empire, from Prof. A. C. Coolidge. -- Gift of $800, for the purchase of books on ecclesiastical history in the Riant Library, from J. Harvey Treat, of Lawrence. -- Gift of $500, for purchase of books relating to Scandinavian subjects, from Mrs. Emil E. Hammer. -- Bequest of 1920 volumes, mainly English and French literature, from Edward Ray Thompson, of Troy, N. Y. -- Gift of 700 volumes from the library of James Russell Lowell, to form the Lowell Memorial Library for the use of the Romance Departments of the University, from various subscribers. -- Gift of 549 volumes, the library of Alphonse Marsigny, from The J. C. Ayer Company, of Lowell. -- Gift of 317 volumes, belonging to the library of her late husband, from Mrs. John E. Hudson. -- Bequest of 250 volumes of Sanskrit and other Oriental works, from Henry C. Warren, Esq. -- Public Library. Bequest of 550 volumes, consisting chiefly of Maine and New Hampshire local histories, genealogies, etc., from Cyrus Woodman. -- Gift of a collection of art works, valued at about $500, from Nathaniel Cushing Nash. _Clinton._ Public Library. Gift of $25,000, for a public library building, from Andrew Carnegie.