(_See_ p. 24.) GEORGE ILES read a paper on THE TRUSTEESHIP OF LITERATURE. (_See_ p. 16.) Mr. ILES: I may add, that when I was in England three years ago and talked about this scheme, one or two asked me, "Who is going to meet your libel suits?" I explained that there was already a very large body of responsible critics who contribute in this country, especially in this field; as, for instance, the critics of the _American Historical Review_, and the notes that I have in mind are very much of the color of the notes one reads in such reviews--not many of them very black, not many of them very white; most of them a whitey brown. I have never heard yet of any libel suits against the editors of the _American Historical Review_, even when their reviews have not been particularly amiable. I do not think we need to dread any litigation. Mr. Larned went to work in organizing his staff of contributors with great caution and good judgment. He did not choose them from any one particular university, but when he heard that at University "A" there was a man who was acknowledged to know the literature of the Columbian period of American history better than anybody else, he sought to enlist that man. And Mr. Larned has been limited, of course, in various ways that you can readily understand, as for instance when sometimes a contributor has given him notes which he has felt obliged to discard. And let me say also that in the main the most important work has been done by the professors of history in the colleges and universities, except for the period of the Civil War, where the late General Cox, who had made a special study of that field, was his contributor. Mr. Larned's idea is simply to find throughout this country in any particular field--the Civil War period, or the pre-Columbian period, or the settlement of the Northwest period, or the war of 1812--the most authoritative and trustworthy man and enlarge his audience to take in all the readers and students in this country, instead of having him speak merely to the students of a particular university or to the readers of a particular review. Dr. RICHARD T. ELY read a paper on the same subject. (_See_ p. 22.) Mr. BOWKER: Can't we have a word from Mr. Thwaites on this question?