The following books have been added to the Union Library during the past week:

"From Old Friends," by N. S. Shaler '62.

"The American Nation, A History:" volume 17, "Westward Extension," by G. P. Garrison; volume 18, "Parties and Slavery," by J. C. Smith '92.

"The Cambridge Modern History," volumes 4, 8 and 9.

"Certain Delightful English Towns," by W. D. Howelles h.'67.

"Complete Works of Shakespeare," edited by Professor W. A. Neilson '96.

"The Happy Family," by G. Hodges.

"My Old Bailiwick," by O. Kildare.

"Plays of Oscar Wilde," volume 3.

"Puck of Pook's Hill," by Rudyard Kipling.

"Robert Louis Stevenson," the Bookman Series.

"Social Rights and Duties," by L. Stephen h.'90.

"Specimens of the Pre-Shakesperean Drama," by J. M. Manly '89.

"The Story of Sigurd the Volsung," by William Morris.

"Thomas Carlyle," the Bookman Series.

"The Thread of Gold," by the author of The House of Quiet."

"The Virginian," by O. Wister '82.

"White Fang," by Jack London.

Old Files of Tribune and Herald Secured.

An almost complete series of bound files of the New York Tribune from 1855 to 1868 and of the New York Herald from 1861 to 1868 has been presented to the Union Library by Mr. H. O. Poor of Brooklyn, N. Y. These volumes are particularly interesting as they cover the whole course of the Civil War.