George Lyman Kittredge, Professor of English at Harvard, has been largely responsible for the fact that the collection of folklore at that university, which was begun by Professor F. J. Child and now numbers about 14,000 volumes, is one of the best in existence. Plate designed by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, engraved by Frederick Spenceley, 1913.-THEODORE W. KOCH, Harvard, '93.

In 1913 a book-fund in honor of Professor Kittredge was subscribed by his friends to mark his completion of twenty-five years of service as a teacher at Harvard.-WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.

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George Cabot Lodge, Harvard, 1895, became known as an author through The Song of the Wave, the Great Adventure, Cain; a drama, and verse contributed to leading American magazines. Joseph Trumbull Stickney, poet and Greek scholar, was a classmate and friend of George Cabot Lodge. Stickney was the first American to receive the degree of Doctorat ès Lettres from the University of Paris. It was granted him in 1903. After returning from Paris, he became instructor of Greek at Harvard, where he died in 1909. Engraved by Tiffany & Co.-THEODORE

W. KOCH, Harvard, '93.

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James Russell Lowell bequeathed to Harvard College Library all his books of which the Library did not already possess copies. Under this provision the Library received in 1891 over 800 volumes and a number of pamphlets. In 1900 a considerable part of what remained of his library was purchased by subscription and given to the College to become a separate Lowell Memorial Library of Romance Literature. For this Mr. Bertram G. Goodhue designed a bookplate. The plate bears the shield of the College on a tree of knowledge, and in the four corners of the design are shields representing mediaeval France, Castile and Leon, Portugal and Florence. The plates used in the books coming from Mr. Lowell's library bear the additional inscription "From the Library of James Russell Lowell, purchased by subscription MDCCCC." These two lines are omitted from the plate as used for later additions.-WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.

Charles Eliot Norton, the well-known Dante scholar and authority on art, was professor of the history of art at Harvard from 1875 to 1898. His books, which, in addition to being intrinsically valuable, were highly prized from the associations which clung to them, came to the Harvard Library partly through purchase by a group of friends and partly by gift and bequest.THEODORE W. KOCH, Harvard, '93.

The income of a memorial fund is spent for books of similar character, and in these the above form of the plate is used.

This is a relief plate reproduced by photography from a pen and ink drawing, a method which deserves to be used more often than it has been hitherto in the designing of bookplates.-WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian.

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