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ill the complete set. The reprint of the Gentleman's Magazine, 

 with its treasures of archaeology, folk-lore, early customs, and 

 quaint knowledge, came for years with unwearied regularity, 

 till it reached twenty-five volumes of 350 pages each. The 

 Society began to think that, like Tennyson's brook, it would 

 " go on forever." It is now completed. The all-embracing 

 Dictionary of National Biography is here, with its sixty-three 

 volumes of upwards of 350 pages in each. There is a pathetic 

 interest gathering around it, in the editor, Leslie Stephens, 

 editing the volumes up to XXI ; then in his having Sidney Lee 

 as helper in XXII to XXVI ; and on his withdrawal in Sid- 

 ney Lee finishing volumes XXVII to LXIII. The whole is a 

 stupendous work. The Society is a subscriber to the very 

 select Prince Society of Boston, and has been permitted to 

 obtain a number of its rare and valuable productions. Mo- 

 rang's de luxe edition of Parkman is here with its seventeen 

 volumes, and here the two volumes are found to have been 

 received of the great " Makers of Canada " series of twenty- 

 four voulmes by the same publisher. The library of thirty 

 volumes of the World's Best Literature is available to readers, 

 and with it four beautiful portfolies of illustrations of art and 

 writing as seen in the British museum. Vieing in extent with 

 the Dictionary of National Biography is the now complete 

 reprint of the " Jesuit Relations." The Provencher library 

 brought to the Society the original three volumes of the " Re- 

 lations," published in Quebec, but it was reserved for Mr. R. 

 G. Thwaits, of the Wisconsin Historical Society, to bring out 

 (1896-1900) the sixty-nine volumes of the "Jesuit Relations." 

 It is a work of great historic value. 



science. 



Not less important for scientific purposes is the collection 

 of the material for scientific research found in the Society's 

 library. In addition to the Smithsonian Institution and United 

 States works, the complete sets of the Royal Society of Can- 

 ada's works and those of the British Association are in the 



