Evidence of the steady growth of the Baker Library in the Graduate School of Business Administration is the announcement made yesterday by Associate Professor A. H. Cole '13, Administrative Curator that 150 books have arrived from the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the first section of a collection of 1000 which has recently been purchased by Mr. C. C. Eaton, the Business School's librarian.

The newly-acquired volumes are chiefly eighteenth and nineteenth century treatises on phases of business and economics, such as "The Art of Tanning", or "The Art of Dyeing", and each has been rebound in French in the form of its first edition. In some cases the Bibliotheque Nationale had as many as six duplicates of the desired works, some of which were taken by French libraries on hearing of the Business School's intended purchase.

Foxwell Collection Bought

Professor Cole also announced that the first shipment of the larger Foxwell collection is on its way. Mr. Eaion obtained for $125,000 this collection of English works on business subjects which the well-known British economies; had been gathering for twenty years.

The Baker Library has recently received all of the business manuscripts of the Boston Public Library, of which it is a branch. Archivists are now working on the arrangement of these manuscripts, "which," says Professor Cole, "must be consulted by anyone anxious to become really acquainted with the business conditions of the times he is studying."

The Library also is exchanging duplicates with the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.