6 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. 
and J. W. Smith have filled the vacancies thus occasioned by 
resignations. 
The Committee unhappily lost a kind and generous friend in the death 
of Miss Mary Hornby, to whose constant devotion to the interests of 
blind readers it was mainly due that the issue of their special books 
had increased from 181 volumes in 1893 to 3,036 last year. 
Here again, in the beneficent provision of books for the blind, in all 
departments of literature, Liverpool has led the way. 
FRANK J. LESLIE, 
Chairman. 
