Report On The Mitchell Library Glasgow

Excerpt from Report on the Mitchell Library, Glasgow: 1887 While the general character of the reading during the year was. Substantially similar to that of the earlier years reported on, there were slight variations which it may be interesting to note. The classes in which the percentage was larger than in the previous year were - Theology and Philosophy, as against Arts and Sciences, against Poetry, against Miscellaneous Literature against In the following classes the proportion was lessened - History and Biography, against Sociology, against Philology, against Prose Fiction, against The steadiness an'd regularity which have been characteristic of the reading in the Library from the commencement, are illustrated by these figures: the largest difference in the percentage of any class, between the two years, is only and the average difference is. Less than half of one per cent. For further particulars respecting the year's issue, I would refer to the annual table, p. 13, and the detailed summary table, showing the work of each year from 1878, on pp. L4, 15. The following periodicals have been added to those placed on the tables of the magazine room. Those marked are presented. The total number now at the service of the public is 290. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.