Some inconsistencies and obvious errors in punctuation and
capitalization have been corrected without further note.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained.
Unusual spellings have been retained, except as noted below.
Inconsistencies in spelling have been fixed in cases where there was a
clear majority of a given spelling, and otherwise retained.
On p. 7, the word "multimillionaires" was broken between lines in the
original; it has been arbitrarily rendered as "multimillionaires" as
opposed to "multi-millionaires".
On p. 22, the phrase "to have so-called expert opinions expressed
concerning books" had "concernings" in the original.
On p. 43, "expense" was "exepense" in the original.
On p. 48, the phrase "independent and autonomous institutions" had
"autonymous" in the original.
On p. 62, the phrase "The best reviews of children's books ever written"
had "childen's" in the original.
On p. 67, "unquestionable" was "unqestionable" in the original.
On p. 68, there is mention of "'The pink hen,' by Cuthbert Sterling.
There is a fairy tale called "The Pink Hen", by Cuthbert Spurling; this
may be what was meant.
On p. 71, "expressing" was "experssing" in the original.
On p. 79, the word "summer-school" was split across lines;
"summer-school" was arbitrarily chosen instead of "summerschool".
On p. 82, the word "handbooks" was split across lines; "handbooks" was
arbitrarily chosen instead of "hand-books"; both were in use at the time.
On p. 86, "questions" was "questtions" in the original.
On p. 109, the phrase "have examined the accounts of the treasurer" had
"trueasurer" in the original.
On p. 111, in the obituary numbered "8", the word "died" was surmised;
the original is unclear.
On p. 114, the phrase "the demand which would otherwise exist" had
"exists" in the original.
On. p. 117, the phrase "although with very inadequate force" appeared in
the original on a line ending in "in-" followed by a line starting with
"dequate"; hence, "indequate".
On p. 120, the word "inter-oceanic" was split across lines; it was
arbitrarily made "inter-oceanic" as opposed to "interoceanic".
On p. 130, in §8, "...meeting of the Association appoint a
committee..." was "...meeting of the Association appoint a a
committee..." in the original.
On p. 138, the phrase "and, secondly, when we are sure" appeared in the
original on a line ending in "sec-" followed by a line starting with
"condly"; hence, "seccondly".
On p. 144, the phrase "wished that a complete bibliography" appeared in
the original on a line ending in "con-" followed by a line starting with
"plete"; hence, "conplete".
On p. 152, the phrase "These subject headings are simply suggestive" had
"heading" in the original.
On p. 155, the phrase "purely bibliographical notation" had
"biliographical" in the original.
On p. 156, the word "letterpress" was split between lines once, and
written as "letter-press" once; these have been changed to "letterpress"
for consistency with previous usage.
On p. 159, the phrase "the purpose of the author arrangement" had
"arangement" in the original.
On p. 162, the phrase "regardless of whether it was as author" had
"regardlesss" in the original.
On p. 190, the phrase "the frailest of our sex" had "frailiest" in the
original.
On p. 191, the phrase "the support and maintenance of public libraries"
appeared in the original on a line ending in "pub-" followed by a line
starting with "lib"; hence, "publib".
On p. 199, the phrase "AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN" had "GOTTINGEN"
in the original.
On p. 210, the phrase "at 9 p.m. Mr. Eastman's" was missing the full
stop after the "m" in the original.
On p. 210, the phrase "the monotony of work" had "monotany" in the
original.
On p. 213, the phrase "Craver, Harrison Warwick" had "Harison" in the
original.
On p. 217, the phrase "Shortridge High S." had "Shortbridge" in the
original.