We would like to call attention, editorially, to a communication which recently appeared in our columns in regard to the "new books." Under the present arrangements, new books can be kept out for the regular period of four weeks, just as is the case with old books. It is obvious, however, that in the great majority of cases, new books are in a much greater demand than old books, and that the same rules should govern the distribution of both is manifestly unfair. In a number of public libraries where books are kept out regularly two weeks, all new books must be returned within one week. It would seem, therefore, as our correspondent suggested, that some distinction might be established in our own library between old and new books. The suggestions, although theoretically sound, may be open to some practical objections, but if these objections can be overcome in other libraries, why can they not be overcome in the Harvard library?