In the current number of the Monthly Mr. Moore has suggested a scheme which, if put into operation would bring about a great change at Harvard. What he proposes to do is to have the present Library torn down, and in its place, a little south of the present site, to have a new building erected adequate to the growing needs of the Library. The much-talked-of New Library Reading Room would come on the northern side of this building. On the present site of Gore Hall, Mr. Moore proposes to have erected a new Fine Arts building provided for by the Fogg legacy. A communication between the Fine Arts building and the reading room of the library would throw open the art collections to men using the library, and also give students of the Fine Arts convenient access simultaneously to books on art and to the works of art themselves. No scheme could be more advantageous to the Fine Arts department, especially, as in the carrying out of this scheme, Gore Hall one of the pet architectural aversions of the Fine Arts department, would be removed from sight.

Mr. Moore's plan is an ambitious one, and if feasible, would doubtless have an excellent influence on Harvard. While in no way wishing to disparage the proposition we wish to offer one or two suggestions. We should like to ask what it is proposed to do with the present fund which is being collected (slowly to be sure) for the new reading room. We understood that one of the objects of having a new reading room was to have some hall disconnected, or rather connected by a slight passage way, with the present Library, in order that it might be lighted in the evening without danger of fire to the Library itself. Under the proposed scheme the reading room, we understand, would be an integral part of the whole library building and until the city of Cambridge allows electric light wires to be run under its streets the use of the reading room would be ended at sun down. If the old plan of having a new library reading room were pushed through, it would greatly relieve the pressure in Gore Hall by throwing open to shelf room what is now used for the reading room. This might serve to solve the question of the Library with less expense than the proposed scheme but then, of course, it would leave the Fine Arts department without its convenient access to the Library.