To look after the needs of the teachers is quite as legitimate a purpose in building up a high-school library as to provide for the needs of the pupils, and so it becomes an essential part of the library equipment to have on hand, available for the teacher's use, as broad a collection as possible of the source material of the branch of history to be taught. Such collections should be made in every high-school library. As most of the cities have growing public libraries, some of the money now wasted on worthless and ephemeral fiction and worse than worthless juveniles, might profitably be turned to books of this kind, which would be of permanent value. This happens to be a very good time to speak of gathering books of this character, as just at present there is great activity in reprinting, or in hunting out and printing for the first time, material that has not hitherto been easily accessible to students. One important series of this kind is Original Narratives of Early American History, published by Chas. Scribner's Sons. The series is under the general editorship of Professor J. Franklin Jameson, and is published under the auspices of the American Historical Association, thus insuring careful selection and editing. It is impossible here to speak in any detail of these volumes. The first one deals with the Northmen, Columbus, and Cabot, and contains material of the very highest value. Its one great defect from our present point of view is its lack of completeness. A number of things are omitted that ought to have been included. Vol. III of the series has preceded Vol. II. It is entitled Early English and French Voyagers, Chiefly from Hakluyt, and contains the narratives of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane, White, Brereton, Priny, Waymouth, and a Voyage to Sagadahoc. Purchas and Hakluyt were republished a few years ago, but in limited edi-