Occasional addresses and papers, for the most part previously publis hed in various reviews, 1877-1898.

Address to the Library association [1898]--Public libraries and thei r catalogues.--The printing of the British museum Catalogue.--The past, present, and future of the British museum Catalogue.--The British muse um Catalogue as the basis of a universal catalogue.--Introduction of Eu ropean printing into the East.--Paraguayan and Argentine bibliography.- -The early Italian book trade.--Some book-hunters of the seventeenth ce ntury.--Librarianship in the seventeenth century.--The manufacture of f ine paper in England in the eighteenth century.--On some colophons of t he early printers.--On the system of classifying books on the shelves f ollowed at the British museum.--Subject indexes to transactions of lear ned societies.--Photography in public libraries.--The telegraph in the library.--On the protection of libraries from fire.--The sliding-press at the British museum.--On the provision of additional space in librari es.--Preface to Blades "Enemies of books."--Sir Anthony Panizzl.--The l ate John Winter Jones.--The late Henry Stevens.--The late Sir Edward A. Bond.--Index.