Town of Westford annual report 1886-1895, Part 25

Author: Westford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Westford (Mass.)
Number of Pages: 896


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The summer boarders who wished to avail themselves of the pri- vileges of the Library were required to deposit $2.00 each with the Librarian, as a guaranty of careful use and safe return of books,


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the same to be refunded at the close of the season. The following persons, however, generously presented a part or the whole of their deposits to the Library : Mrs. C. B. Cummings, $2.00 ; Mrs. Frank Jones, $2.00; Mrs. Tappan, $1.00.


The bound magazines, two hundred twenty-eight volumes, pres- ented to the Library during the year, with a few volumes already on the shelves, will constitute a new class, which is to be designated by the letter P. Poole's Index is recommended as a key to this wealth of miscellaneous literature, and it is hoped that sufficient funds may be available for its purchase early the coming year.


It has been found necessary to have more than a hundred volumes rebound the past year, and many more will soon need to go to the binder. Much of this is the natural result of constant use, but it is feared that in some cases the books are not handled with a reason- able amount of care. The Trustees have been sorry -nay indignant -to see costly books returned with pages soiled, and marred by turning down corners. This is probably due to carelessness, but carelessness is malicious when it renders a valuable book, the property of the Town, unfit to be enjoyed by subsequent readers.


The time has come when a new Library building is an imperative necessity. The shelves are so nearly full that it is impossible to avoid confusion in classification. How the present room can be made to furnish accommodation for another year's books is a prob- lem whose solution will tax the ingenuity of the Trustees. As each year improved methods of teaching require of the pupils in our schools more frequent consultation of books of reference, with which the Library is well supplied, the lack of accommodation for such work becomes more apparent. Moreover, our Library, with the added riches of years, is already too valuable to remain longer in a wooden building.


In short we should have a fire-proof structure, with ample shelv- ing for future years ; a good reading-room provided with maga- zines and newspapers ; also provision for the reception and display of such curiosities as have been and may be presented to the Library.


It has been hoped that some generous son of Westford might find it in his heart to give such a building to the Town ; but if that is not to be, Westford will doubtless, with her usual independence, soon provide for the better housing of her Library and the greater convenience of its patrons.


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.


RECEIPTS.


Unexpended balance from last year


$ 7 62


Income from State fund.


68 00


Income from Fletcher fund


40 00


Gifts .


5 00


Fines


10 00


Town appropriation,


150 00


From dog-tax


269 38


$550 00


EXPENDITURES.


For books .


$461 53


Fxpress and freight bills.


6 51


Printing regulations and labels .


4 75


Librarian's ledger


1 50


Binding books


68 83


$543 12


Balance unexpended


6 88


$550 00


REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.


Number of books purchased.


382


Public documents received from the State.


13


Public documents received from the United States.


7


Volumes presented .


295


Number of Pamphlets added .


56


Whole number of books added during year


697


Whole number of books in library


7,507


Number of books issued


8,787


Number of books lost.


4


We recommend that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be raised and appropriated for the purchase of books during the ensuing year.


Respectfully submitted :


WILLIAM E. FROST, KATE S. HAMLIN, NETTIE M. STEVENS,


Trustees of Westford Public Library.


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LIST OF BOOKS.


ADDED TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1892-93.


A


Acts and Resolves, 1892. 535


Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1702. 538


Education, Annual Report of Board of, 1890-1 533


Industry of Massachusetts, 1855


539


Journal of House of Representatives, 1892


531


Journal of Senate, 1892. 532


Laws of Massachusetts, 1780-1827, 8 vols 540-7


Laws of Massachusetts, 1780-1822, 3 vols. 548-50


Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1784-5


537


Manual of General Court, 1892.


530


Massachusetts, Special Laws, 1795-1822, 4 vols. 551-4


536


Public Documents, 1891, 5 vols.


539-43


Registration Report, 1891 534


B


Astronomical Expedition .


478


Census, Abstract of 7th, 1851.


466


Coast Survey Report, 1854.


479


Commercial Relations of United States, 1888-91, 2 vols. .


480-1


Comptroller of the Currency, Report of, 1891


482


Constitution and Laws of New Hampshire, 1805


477


Education, Report of Commissioner of, 1888-9, 2 vols.


484-5


Historical Law Tracts, Lord Haims, 1761


476


Interstate Commerce Commission, 1891.


48


Laws of United States, 4 vols ..


472-5


Messages and Documents, 1853-6


467-9


Patent Office Reports, 1851-2.


470-1


Treasury, Report of Secretary, 1890


486


C


Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean, Lee Meriwether, Among the Scotch-Irish, with History of Dinsmoor Family, L. A. Morrison 442


440


Massachusetts Report, vol. 154.


69


Aztec Land. M. M. Ballou


435


Equatorial America. M. M. Ballou.


434


Excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire, in 1804. E. Donovan, 2 vols.


444-5


Girl in the Karpathians, A. Menie Muriel Dowie.


436


Leith to Lapland. William Hurton ..


441


Nimrod in the North. Frederick Schwatka.


432


Nuremberg and Back. Amy Neally .


443


Race with the Sun, A. Carter H. Harrison 431


Through Russia on a Mustang. Thomas Stevens .. 433


Tramp across the Continent, A. Charles F. Lummis . .. 439


Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. Edward


Whymper. 446


Wild Wales. George Borrow. 438


Zincali ; an Account of Gypsies in Spain. George Borrow, 437


D


Advance-Guard of Western Civilization. James R. Gil-


more .


598


Ancient History. Charles Rollin, 4 vols.


590-3


Ancient History, Epochs of Athenian Empire. Sir G. W.


Cox.


615


Early Empire ; Roman History. W. W. Capes


616


Early Rome. W. Ihne.


617


Gracchi, The, Marius and Sulla. A. H. Beesly


618


Greeks and the,Persians. Sir G. W. Cox.


619


Rise of the Macedonian Empire. Arthur M. Curteis. .. 620


Rome and Carthage; The Punic Wars. R. Bosworth Smith . 621


Roman Empire of Second Century. W. W. Capes 622


Roman Triumvirates. Charles Merivale. 623


624


Spartan and Theban Supremacies. Charles Sankey. Armies of To-day


602


Bedford, History of. Abram English Brown


601


Byzantine Empire, Story of. C. W. C. Oman ..


584


Columbus and Columbia. J. G. Blaine, J. W. Buel, J. C. Ridpath, and Benj. Butterworth 599


Dawn of Italian Independence. Wm. R. Thayer, 2 vols. . Discovery of America. John Fiske, 2 vols .


609-10


Ecclesiastical History of England. Venerable Bede's,


589


Flag of the United States of America, History, and Prin- cipal National Songs. Geo. Henry Preble 578


Florentine Histories. N. Machiavelli, 2 vols . 613-14


France under the Regency. James Breck Perkins 608


French Revolution, Eve of. Edward J. Lowell. 596


Half-Century of Conflict. Francis Parkman. 2 vols


579-80


582-3


also Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Ed. by J. A. Giles .... England, History of. M. Guizot, 4 vols . 585-8


70


Lincoln, and His Administration, Recollections of. L. E. Chittenden . .


605


Maine, Brief History of. George J. Varney 595


Modern History, Epochs of. Age of Anne. Edward E.


Morris ..


625


Age of Elizabeth. Mandell Creighton.


626


Beginning of the Middle Ages. R. W. Church


628


Early Hanoverians, The. Edward E. Morris 629


Early Plantagenets, The. William Stubbs 630


Early Tudors, The. Rev. C. E. Moberly 631


632


English Restoration and Louis XIV. Osmund Airy ...


633


Epoch of Reform. Justin McCarthy 634


Era of Protestant Revolution. Frederick Seebohm .. 635


636


Fall of the Stuarts and Western Europe. Rev. E. Hale, First Two Stuarts and Puritan Revolution. Samuel Raw- son Gardiner 637


Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War. F. W.


Longman


638


French Revolution. Bertha M. Gardiner.


639


Houses of Lancaster and York. James Gairdner 640


Normans in Europe. Rev. A. H. Johnson


641


Thirty Years' War. Samuel Rawson Gardiner 643


642


War of American Independence. John Malcolm Ludlow, On the Border with Crook. John G. Bourke


606 597


Presidential Elections, History of. Edward Stanwood


Real Japan, The. Henry Norman .


581


Rise of the Swiss Republic. W. D. McCrackan.


607


Sabbath in Puritan New England. Alice Morse Earle ....


576


Souvenir of 24th National Encampment, G. A. R., Boston, 1890.


577


Sudbury, Wayland and Maynard, Annals of. Alfred S. Hudson .


600


Three Episodes of Massachusetts History. Charles Francis Adams. 2 vols.


611-12


United States, History of, from Compromise of 1850. James Ford Rhodes. 2 vols. 603-4


594


E


Aristotle, and Ancient Educational Ideals. Thomas


Davidson


Balzac, Honoré de. Katharine P. Wormley . 715


Brigham, C. H. Memoir and Papers 719


Cæsar. Col. T. A. Dodge. 720


Carlyle, Thomas. John Nichol. 718


Checkered Life, A. Col. John A. Joyce .. 705


Citizeness Bonaparte. Imbert de Saint-Amand 694


Vermont. Rowland E. Robinson


691


Crusades, The. Sir G. W. Cox. 627


Edward III. Rev. W. Warburton


71


Court of the Empress Josephine. Imbert de Saint- 696


Amand


Dickens, Charles. Letters to Wilkie Collins. Ed. by Lau- rence Hutton . 686


Farragut, Admiral. Capt. A. T. Mahan 713


Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise. Imbert de Saint-Amand.


697


Hopkins, Mark. Franklin Carter


689


Keats. Sidney Colvin


716


Lamb, Charles, Letters of. Ed. by Edward G. Johnson .. . Lincoln. Wm. H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. 2 vols ..


687


Loyola and Educational System of Jesuits. Rev. Thomas Hughes. 690


Marie Antoinette and Downfall of Royalty. Imbert de


Saint-Amand.


693


Marie Antoinette and End of Old Regime. Imbert de


Saint-Amand.


692


Marie Louise, Island of Elba, and the 100 Days. Imbert de Saint-Amand .


700


Marie Louise and Decadence of the Empire. Imbert de Saint-Amand . 698


699


Mirabeau, Recollections of. Etienne Dumont


707


Oliphant, Laurence and Alice, Memoir. Margaret O. W. Oliphant. 2 vols ..


708-9


Prentiss, S. S., Memoir of. 2 vols.


701-2


Raleigh, Sir Walter. Wm. Stebbing


706


Sidney, Sir Philip. J. A. Symonds.


717


Simms, Wm. Gilmore. Wm. P. Trent .. 688


Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Rev. Robert Shindler


714


Washington, Mary, Story of. Marion Harland .


710


Wife of the First Consul. Imbert de Saint-Amand. .... 695


Wilkes, John. Life and Times of. Percy Fitzgerald. 2 vols . 703-4


F 468


Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry. F.


H. Storer. 2 vols. .


471-2


Astronomy through an Opera Glass. Garret P. Serviss. 479


Man and the Glacial Period. G. Frederick Wright. . .. Natural History of the United States of America. Louis 474 Agassiz. 4 vols. 483-6


Quadrupeds of North America. John James Audubon. 3 vols. 480-2


Religious Aspect of Philosophy. Josiah Royce. 469


Spirit of Modern Philosophy. Josiah Royce 470


Studies of Nature. 3 vols.


475-7


Age of Electricity. Park Benjamin


Marie Louise and Invasion of 1814. Imbert de Saint- Amand


711-12


72


Temperance Reform in Massachusetts, 1813-1883. George F. Clarke. : . 473


Weaving, Theory and Practice of Art of. John Watson .. 478


G


Eastern Church, Lectures on History of. Arthur P. Stan-


ley . 303


Evolution of Christianity. Lyman Abbott. 305


Influence of Apostle Paul on Development of Christianity. Otto Pfleiderer 304


H


Adam Bede. George Eliot. 1668


Afloat and Ashore. J. Fenimore Cooper


1621


Alice. E. Bulwer-Lytton .


1714


Alpine Fay, The. E. Werner. Translated by Mrs. Wis-


ter


1647


American Notes. Charles Dickens.


1698


Barbara's History. Amelia B. Edwards


1664


Barnaby Rudge. Charles Dickens.


1694


Begam's Daughter. Edwin L. Bynner 1641


Better Dead. J. M. Barrie. 1591


Bleak House. Charles Dickens 1700


Bravo, The. J. Fenimore Cooper. 1629


Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon. Hall Caine 1654


Caxtons, The. E. Bulwer-Lytton. 1709


Cecilia de Noël. Lanoe Falconer .. 1614


Chainbearer, The. J. Fenimore Cooper 1630


Child's History of England, A. Charles Dickens


Christmas Stories. Charles Dickens. 1697


1691


Columbus and Beatriz. Constance G. DuBois


1603


Coming Race, The. E. Bulwer-Lytton.


1709


Countess Erika's Apprenticeship. O. Schubin. Trans-


lated by Mrs. Wister.


1650


Crater, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1623


Damen's Ghost. Edwin L. Bynner


1639


Daniel Deronda. George Eliot. 2 vols.


1672-3


David Alden's Daughter. Jane G. Austin


1642


David Copperfield. Charles Dickens


1704


Day at Laguerres' and Other Days, A. F. Hopkinson


Smith 1601


Deerslayer, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1618


Devereux. E. Bulwer-Lytton .


1710


Dombey & Son. Charles Dickens


1702


Don Orsino. F. Marion Crawford. 1656


Driftwood. Henry W. Longfellow 1666


Dukesborough Tales. Richard M. Johnston 1658


Ernest Maltravers. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1714


Disowned, The. E. Bulwer-Lytton 1710


73


Eugene Aram. E. Bulwer-Lytton. 1715


Fellowe and His Wife, A. Blanche W. Howard and Wm.


Sharp .. 1634


Felix Holt. George Eliot. 1667


Godophin. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1708


Golden Gossip, A. Mrs. A. D. F. Whitney


1595 Grandmother, The. Bozena Nemec


1602


Great Expectations. Charles Dickens


1693


Great Shadow, A. Conan Doyle.


1646


" Ground Arms." Bertha Von Suttner.


1613


Hallam Succession, The. Amelia E. Barr 1663


Hard Times. Charles Dickens. 1699


Harold. E. Bulwer-Lytton. 1704


Headsman, The. J. Fenimore Cooper. 1626


Heidenmauer, The. J. Fenimore Cooper 1626


Holly Tree Inn, The. Charles Dickens. . 1697


1631


Homeward Bound. J. Fenimore Cooper 1631


1609


Hyperion. Henry W. Longfellow 1667


Ilka on the Hilltop. H. H. Boyesen. 1608


Ivory Gate, The. Walter Besant. . 1660


Jack Tier. J. Fenimore Cooper


1619


Jesuit's Ring, The. Augustus A. Hayes


1596


Kavanagh. Henry W. Longfellow.


1667


Kenelm Chillingly. E. Bulwer-Lytton.


1711


Last of the Barons. E. Bulwer-Lytton. 1706


Last of the Mohicans. J. Fenimore Cooper 1627


1717


Lavengro. George Borrow. 1635


1678-82


Lionel Lincoln. J. Fenimore Cooper


1622


Little Dorrit. Charles Dickens .


1701


Lost Silver of Briffault. Amelia E. Barr 1662


Lucretia. E. Bulwer-Lytton. 1713


1614


Main-Travelled Roads. Hamlin Garland


1599


Man Who Laughs, The. Victor Hugo. 2 vols.


1685-6


Man Who Was Guilty. Flora H. Longhead


1645


Martin Chuzzlewit. Charles Dickens


1692


Mercedes of Castile. J. Fenimore Cooper


1629


Middlemarch. George Eliot. 2 vols .. 1670-1


1623


Mill on the Floss, The. George Eliot.


Miss Bagg's Secretary. Clara Louise Burnham. . 1605 1676


1604


Monikins. J. Fenimore Cooper.


1625


Mrs. Keats Bradford. Maria Louise Pool 1655


My Lady Nicotine. J. M. Barrie


1589


Home as Found. J. Fenimore Cooper.


House of Martha, The. Frank R. Stockton


Last Days of Pompeii. E. Bulwer-Lytton


Les Misérables. Victor Hugo. 5 vols.


Mademoiselle Ixe. Lanoe Falconer


Miles Wallingford. J. Fenimore Cooper


Miss Wilton. Cornelia Warren


74


My Novel. E. Bulwer-Lytton . 1716


Mystery of Edwin Drood. Charles Dickens. 1694


New Arabian Nights. R. L. Stevenson. 1593


New Harry and Lucy. E. E. and Lucretia P. Hale 1606


Nicholas Nickleby. Charles Dickens


1696


Night and Morning. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1708


Ninety-Three. Victor Hugo.


1687


Notre Dame de Paris. Victor Hugo. 2 vols


1683-4


Oak Openings. J. Fenimore Cooper


1624


Old Curiosity Shop. Charles Dickens


1699


Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1698


1648


Onoqua. Frances C. Sparhawk.


1652


Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens


1690


Outre-Mer. Henry W. Longfellow.


1666


Owl's Nest, The. E. Marlitt. Trans. by Mrs. Wister


1649


Parisians, The. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1707


Pathfinder, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1618


Pausanius. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1706


Pelham. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1713


Penniless Girl, A. W. Heinburg. Trans. by Mrs. Wister.


1651


Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens . 1695


1707


Pilot, The. J. Fenimore Cooper.


1620


Pioneers, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1627


Prairie, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1617


Pratt Portraits. Anna Fuller 1643


Precaution. J. Fenimore Cooper


1616


Prue and I. George William Curtis


1665


Quality of Mercy, The. Wm. D. Howells


1586


Queen Titania. H. H. Boyesen .


1607


Red Rover, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1620


Redskins, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1630


Rienzi. E. Bulwer-Lytton .


1711


Roger Hunt. Celia P. Woolley


1610


Romany Rye, The. George Borrow


1636


Romola. George Eliot. 2 vols ..


1674-5


Roweny in Boston. Maria Louise Pool.


1598


St. Katherine's by the Tower. Walter Besant 1659


1624


Scenes of Clerical Life, and Life of Author. Eliot


George


1669


Scottish Chiefs, The. Jane Porter. 2 vols. 1632-3


Sea Lions, The. J. Fenimore Cooper. 1621


Sherburne House. Amanda M. Douglas. 1657


Silas Marner. George Eliot. 1675


Spy, The. J. Fenimore Cooper . ·


1617


Strange Story, A. E. Bulwer-Lytton.


1705


Paul Clifford. E. Bulwer-Lytton .


1715


Pilgrims of the Rhine. E. Bulwer-Lytton


Only a Girl. Von Hillern. Trans. bv Mrs. Wister


Satanstoe. J.Fenimore Cooper


75


Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens . 1703


Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy


1587


Three Bright Girls. Annie E. Armstrong 1597


Three Fates. F. Marion Crawford


1594


Toilers of the Sea. Victor Hugo. 2 vols


1688-9


Tourmalin's Time Cheques. F. Anstey . 1638


Tragic Comedians, The. George Meredith 1600


Truth about Clement Ker. George Fleming 1637


Two Admirals, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


1628


Utter Failure, An. Miriam Coles Harris.


1611


Van Bibber and Others. Richard Harding Davis


1653


Vice Versa. F. Anstey . 1612


1628


Ways of the Hour. J. Fenimore Cooper


1616


Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish. J. Fenimore Cooper


1622


What Will He Do with It. E. Bulwer-Lytton 1712


When a Man's Single. J. M. Barrie 1590


Wing and Wing. J. Fenimore Cooper . 1619


Winterborough. Eliza Orne White ..


1644


World Went Very Well Then. Walter Besant


1661


Wrecker, The. R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


1592


Wyandotte. J. Fenimore Cooper.


1625


Zachary Phips. Edwin L. Bynner 1640


Zanoni. E. Bulwer-Lytton


1705


J


Admiral's Caravan. Charles E. Carryl. 885


Battle and a Boy, A. Blanche W. Howard 897


Belt and Spur . . 873


Bob Burton. H. Alger, Jr 894


Boyhood in Norway. H. H. Boyesen 865


Bravest of the Brave. G. A. Henty 889


Captain of the Kittiewink. Herbert D. Ward. 905


Christmas Every Day. Wm. D. Howells 902


Diego Pinzon. John R. Coryell 899


Doctor's Little Daughter. Eliza Meteyard


903


Down the Snow Stairs. Alice Corkran .


868


English Literature, Children's Stories in. Henrietta C. Wright. 2 vols. 869-70


Five Little Peppers Grown Up. Margaret Sidney 864


Flying Hill Farm. Sophie Swett. 898


Giovanni and the Other. Mrs. F. H. Burnett 886


Golden Age, Story of. James Baldwin 872


Grettir the Outlaw. S. Baring-Gould 874


Jackanapes. Mrs. J. H. Ewing 906


Jack Hall. Robert Grant. 891


Jack in the Bush. Robert Grant. 892


Kaleidoscope, The. Margaret Sidney, etc. 856


Knightly Legends of Wales. Ed. by Sidney Lanier. 876


Water Witch, The. J. Fenimore Cooper


76


Knockabout Club in the Antilles. F. A. Ober 879


Knockabout Club Alongshore. C. A. Stephens. 880


Knockabout Club in the Woods. C. A. Stephens. 881 Little People and Their Homes in Meadows, Woods, and Waters. Stella Louise Hook 875


Luke Walton. H. Alger, Jr


895


Margery Merton's Girlhood. Alice Corkran


867 Miss Ashton's New Pupil. Mrs. S. S. Robbins


Oliver Optic's Annual. 890


884


Otto of the Silver Hand. Howard Pyle.


Pot of Gold, A. Mary E. Wilkins.


Robin Hood, Adventures of. Howard Pyle


Secret of the Old House. Evelyn Everett-Green 857


Sir Walter's Ward. Wm. Everard. 866


893


Story of a child, The. Margaret Deland


904 896 877


Three Vassar Girls in Russia and Turkey. E. W. Champney Three Vassar Girls in Switzerland. E. W. Champney .... 878


Two Thousand Years Ago. A. J. Church.


871


Witch Winnie's Studio. Elizabeth W. Champney .


887


With Clive in India. G. A. Henty.


888


Young Folks' Bible History. Charlotte M. Yonge.


858


Young Folks' History of Civil War. Mrs. C. Emma Cheney, 861


859


Young Folks' History of Netherlands. Alexander Young,


86.2


Young Folks' History of Reformation. Fred. H. Allen .. . 863


Young Folks' History of Russia. Nathan Haskell Dole ... 860


Young Lucretia. Mary E. Wilkins.


901


L


At Sundown. J. G. Whittier. 243


Ballads. Robert Louis Stevenson


208


Byron, Lord. Poems, 5 vols.


248-52


Early Ballads and Songs of Peasantry of England. Ed.


by Robert Bell . 205


Eliot, George. Poems.


236


Feast of the Virgins. H. L. Gordon


206


House of the Wolfings. William Morris


204


Idylls of Norway. H. H. Boyesen


211


Lazy Minstrel. J. Ashby-Sterry .


210


Little-Folk Lyrics. Frank D. Sherman


212


Longfellow, Henry W. Poems, 6 vols ..


237-42


Lost Ring and Other Poems. Caroline A. Mason.


231


Makers of Venice. Mrs. Oliphant. 232


Music. Anton Rubinstein . 209


Nature and Elements of Poetry. E. C. Stedman.


234


New Life of Dante Alighieri. Trans. by Charles E. Norton 233


Shakespeare, Wm. Works of, 20 vols. 213-30


88.2 900 883


Store Boy, The. H. Alger, Jr.


Struggling Upward. H. Alger, Jr


Young Folks' History of London. Wm. H. Rideing .....


77


Sisters' Tragedy, and Other Poems. T. B. Aldrich. 235 Whittier, John G. Poems, 4 vols. 244-7


Western Verse. Eugene Field 207


M


Burke, Edmund. Works of, 12 vols. 698-709


Cathcarts' Literary Reader. 692


Criticism and Fiction. Wm. D. Howells. 685


Dante and His Ideal. Herbert Baynes


English Literature, Choice Specimens of. 684


711


English Novel, The. Sidney Lanier.


679


Finger-Ring Lore. Wm. Jones. 681


Garden's Story. George H. Ellwanger. . 686


Humour of France. Trans. by Elizabeth Lee. 694


Humour of Germany. Trans. by Hans Müller-Casenov .. 695


Humour of Italy. Trans. by A. Werner.


696


Little Brothers of the Air. Olive Thorne Miller


683


McGuffey's Fifth Reader .. 690


Miscellaneous Essays. George Eliot


697


Old Concord. Margaret Sidney


714 693


Old English Dramatists. James Russell Lowell ..


Open Sesame. Prose and Poetry for School-Days, 2 vols.


712-13


Plato's Best Thoughts. Comp. by C. H. A. Bulkley


680


Rescue of an Old Place. Mary Caroline Robbins. 688


682


Social condition and Education of People in England. Joseph Kay . 710


Social Life in England, 1660-90. Wm. Connor Sidney 69


Story of My House. George H. Ellwanger 687


689


N


Annual Cyclopædia. 1891 112


Century Dictionary. 6 vols. 116-121


Chamber s'Encyclopædia. vols. 9 and 10 110-11


115


Miracles, Dictionary of. E. C. Brewer 114


U. S. Index to the United States of America. Comp. by


Malcolm Townsend. 113


P


Blackwood's Magazine. 4 vols. 308-11


Every Saturday. 4 vols


304-7


Granite Monthly. 2 vols. 316-17


Harper's Magazine. 21 vols 318-338


Household Words. 2 vols. 312-13


Littell's Living Age. 195 vols


1-195


Scribner's Monthly. 2 vols 314-15


Select Journal. 4 vols . 300-3


Science of Fairy Tales. Edwin S. Hartland.


Swinton's Classic Reader.


Gazetteer of U. S. A. John Hayward.


PAMPHLETS.


A


Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Report of, 1891. 20


Amherst College, Catalogue 1886-7. 25


Massachusetts Agricultural College, Report of, 1892 21


Massachusetts Agricultural College, Report on Insects, 1893. . . 22


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Catalogue, 1886-8 .. Massachusetts School for Feeble-Minded at Waltham, 1892.


26-7 30


Massachusetts State Normal School, Bridgewater, Catalo- gue, 1887 23


Massachusetts State Normal School, Framingham, Circular, 1888. 24


Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, Report, 1886. 33


Papers on Drawing, 1870 28


Public Instruction


29


Public Reservations, Report of, 1891. 32


31


B


Consular Reports, Nos. 133-136 137-150


Consular Report, Special.


Gas in Foreign Countries


151


India Rubber. 152


Slave Trade in Foreign Countries 153 Tariffs of Foreign Countries . 154


Education, Bureau of :


Biological Teaching in Colleges of U. S. John P. Campbell .. 136


Fourth International Prison Congress, St. Petersburg, Russia. C. D. Randall . 130


Graded School, Promotions and Examinations. Emerson E. White 134


Higher Education in Massachusetts. George Gary Bush, 133


Higher Education in Michigan. A. C. McLaughlin . . 131 Higher Education in Ohio. G. W. Knight and J. R. Commons 132


Normal School Idea in U. S. J. P. Gordy . 135


Southern Women in Educational Movement in South. Rev. A. D. Mayo.


129


State Library, Report of Librarian, 1892 .


79


M


Bowdoin College, Catalogues. 1886-90. 14-17


Middlebury College, Catalogues. 1891 18


Movement for Better Roads. Col. A. A. Pope. 22


Organization and Management of Public Libraries. Wm.


F. Poole. 27


Personal Experience of a Physician. John Ellis. 24


Proportional Representation 28


School Committee of Lowell, Report 1889 30


Southern California 25


Tewksbury Public Library, Catalogue. 21


Tobacco, Insanity and Nervousness. Dr. L. Bremer. 29


University of Denver and Colorado Seminary, Catalogue. 1892 19


University of Pennsylvania, Catalogue. 1891 20


Utah. P. Donan .. 23


Washington Centennary in New York, 1889.


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1


ANNUAL REPORT


OF THE


SCHOOL COMMITTEE


OF THE


TOWN OF WESTFORD, MASS.,


FOR THE


SCHOOL YEAR ENDING MARCH 1, 1893.


LOWELL, MASS .: VOX POPULI PRESS: S. W. HUSE & CO. 1893.


SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1892-93.


A. J. ABBOT, Chairman Term expires 1894


A. A. BICKFORD, Secretary


66 1895


ALFRED WOODBURY


66 1893


A. R. CHOATE


66


66 1895


A. G. POLLEY


66 1893


GEORGE DREW


66 1894


REPORT.


Follow Citizens and Friends :


The first meeting of the School Committee for the year was held March 26th, 1892, and the Committee organized by the choice of A. J. Abbot as chairman and Rev. A. A. Bickford, secretary and super- intendent of schools. The several meetings during the year have been all attended by the entire Committee and in the settlement of the important questions relating to choice of teachers, financial matters, etc., there has been perfect harmony among the members. The decisions arrived at are before you, although the reasons by which we have been governed, which are many and complex, are not always so apparent and cannot be fully detailed here. All the school work has not been of ideal excellence, but we are confident that the year as a whole has been one of much prosperity. A con- siderable number of changes have occurred in our corps of teachers, but they have for the most part resulted happily, and several who have begun their work in the town during the year have proved valuable acquisitions. We believe that we have at present a com- pany of teachers who as a whole are competent, progressive, and earnest. It is exceedingly fortunate for the schools of Westford that so many of them reside in town, as it has been a controlling inducement for them to accept lower salaries than were offered elsewhere. But we cannot depend greatly in the future upon this favoring element in the problem of supplying our school rooms with good teachers. It will perhaps be effective in a few cases, but what shall be done relating to schools where there is no resident teacher of ability, and where the inducement of salary is not suffi- cient to hold any teacher of assured reputation ? The School Com- mittee must be frequently at their wits' end attempting to answer the question. They must resort to much experimenting, and if they are successful in finding a jewel among the many dubious unknown candidates who seek schools continually, they must anticipate soon being outbid by some town that covets our best gifts. The Com- mittee in previous years has called attention to the fact, which has




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