THE Library, on the whole, is conducted so much for our advantage that a complaint on the subject may seem hypercritical. Nevertheless there is one great annoyance which could be easily removed. It is extremely desirable that visitors should be excluded from the reading-room. It is difficult enough to study there at any time; the continual passing to and fro renders connected study almost impossible. Now, if visitors were excluded, this disturbance would be greatly lessened. There is nothing remarkable to be seen in the reading-room, and any survey which is necessary can be obtained through the glass doors or from the exhibition room above. Almost every visitor tramps through the reading-room, but searcely one in ten ascends to the exhibition room, where the curiosities of the Library are displayed to any wishing to see them. Visitors are not admitted behind the counter of a banking-house to gaze over the shoulders of the busy clerks; why should they be admitted into our counting-house, to disturb us by their stares and whispered comments?