During the past three weeks the library of the Union has received many good gifts:

Two large and handsome Oriental rugs in the north and south rooms have been given by Mr. William Phillips '00, Secretary of the Library Committee, and add greatly to the attractiveness of the rooms. A clock, the gift of the Class of 1882, has been placed on the mantel in the north room.

Small, Maynard and Company, publishers, of Boston, have given over a hundred volumes of their publications. The Christian Association has presented Phillips Brooks's sermons in eight volumes. Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, has sent a well bound set of the works of M. LeReux, the next lecturer before the Cercle Francais. Mrs. Winsor has given accomplete set of nineteen volumes of the works of the late Librarian of the University, Justin Winsor, including both the "Memorial History of Boston" and the "Narrative and Critical History of America."

Of the College Faculty, Dean Briggs and Professors Hanus, Charles H. Moore, James, Hart, Hollis, Munsterberg and Santayana have recently given one or more volumes of their own works.

Colonel T. W. Higginson '41 has sent twenty-three volumes, mostly books of his own writing. Other graduates who have sent their works to the library are Judge Robert Grant '73. T. W. Balch '90, R. W. Hale '92, Charles Warren '89 C.M. Flandran '95, and James F. Rhodes h.'01, William E. Furness '06, of Chicago, has given sixty volumes, and Mr. R. C. Lehmann of London has given his book entitled "Anni Fugaces."