Mr. DANA: I just want a moment to correct a possible impression that I was finding fault with the educational profession of this country. I was not finding fault with them, but finding fault with ourselves. If we are not yet a power to the teachers of this country, then it is our own fault. We do not as yet understand our own fitness, especially in relation to schools and reading in the schools, and we do not even know what we want to do, or what books to recommend. We do not know what the field of work in the schools is. How, then, can we expect to teach it; to urge a thing in regard to which we are not yet free of all doubts? The fault is our own possibly, and yet it is not all our own fault. It is largely a question of necessary time. In the absence of Dr. E. C. RICHARDSON, chairman, the secretary read the REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. The Committee on International Co-operation in taking up the work referred to it by the Association has limited itself this year to a consideration of the question of a uniform standard of book statistics. This question is a two-fold one, first, what should be called a book, second, when statistics are classified, what are the most practical and useful classes? In respect of the first matter, it recommends that all books for statistical purposes be divided into two or three classes. (1) Books of 50 pages or over; (2) books under 50 pages; or, where books of under eight pages are regarded at all, books of from eight to 49 pages; and (3) books under eight pages. In respect of the second question, the chairman has prepared a comparative table of the usage of the _Publishers' Weekly_, _Bookseller and Newsdealer_, _Publishers' Circular_, _Bibliografia Italiana_, _Hinrichs_ and _Reinwald_, arranging these in the order of the Dewey classification. This was printed by Mr. Bowker for the use of the committee, and is herewith submitted. _Table showing classification of book trade statistics._ Some of the chief matters for attention are the questions of _Biography_, whether by itself or scattered in classes; _Literary History and Art_, by itself or under Philology, or under Bibliography, or scattered; _Juveniles_, by itself or divided among Fiction, Poetry, Education, etc.; _Scientific School Books_, _Geographies_, _etc._, under subject or under Education; _Art of War_, _Commerce_, _etc._, under Economics or Technology. All these conflict somewhere in usage shown and in the judgment of the various members of the committee, although there is a majority for keeping Biography as a separate class--contrary to unanimous foreign usage.