The second series of songsters was named the “One Cent Song Book,” of which nine different numbers are known to exist, and of which the Library shows eight (lacking only No. 6). As its name indicates, it was sold for a cent, and was a 16mo eight-page pamphlet. All numbers are extremely rare. It was published in 1868. Previously, in 1861, the “Dime Union Song Book” in two numbers had been brought out, containing the war songs of the North. The third and last songster series was a pretentious royal octavo in size, and named “Beadle’s Singers’ Library.” Beginning in 1878, it continued weekly into 1879, and 43 separate numbers are known. Of these the Library possesses an almost complete file, lacking only numbers 3 and 20, with nearly all the numbers in first edition. The first editions of these items had large colored vignette illustrations on the front page, with much of the coloring done by hand. Each number contained fifty or more songs of the day, the entire series, therefore, embracing more than two thousand of the songs most popular with the Americans of 43 years ago. For that reason it is also a historically invaluable collection, since the song literature it contains discloses, in striking manner, the prevailing thoughts and manners of society. Many of the songs themselves, both in title and text, reveal the prevalence of an artificial sentimentality, a tolerance of crime and vulgarity, a worship of alcohol, and a laxity of morals decidedly in contrast with ideas now prevailing. A column might be filled with the peculiar titles to these interesting ditties. Among them are “The Crackman’s Chant,” “Pull Down the Blind,” “Battle of the Kegs,” “Since Terry First Joined the Gang,” “Grease the Griddle, Birdie, Darling,” “When Brown Comes Rolling Home,” “She Was Clerk in a Candy Store,” “Billiards and Pool,” “See that my Nose is kept Red,” “The Way my Daddy Went,” “I’m Dancing Mad,” “The Old Whisky Jug,” “Go It While You’re Young,” “The Rat Catcher’s Daughter,” “On Coney Island Beach,” “She Wept her Life Away,” “Charge the Can Cheerily,” “Bright, Bright Wine,” “I Fancy I’ve seen you Before,” “Charley the Masher,” “Please Father don’t Drink Any More,” “Come Home Mother,” and “Dear Father, Come Down with the Stamps.” Although the preceding outline of Beadle activities sufficiently suggests that his career was not confined to the publishing of adventure tales, according to the general impression, there still remain to be noticed the items which terminate the distinctively Beadle phase of the Library’s exhibition. They are four in number, of which three are newspapers and one is a pretentious monthly magazine. The magazine in question is “The Home Monthly,” four volumes of which appeared in Buffalo during the years 1856-1860, before Beadle came to New York City. It ranked among the best periodicals of the country. The Library shows it in completeness.