being to confine
the use of the library to the _bona fide_ inhabitants of the city.
Practically the books are given to those who ask for them, whoever
they may be. Boston contains over 200,000 inhabitants, and all those
200,000 are entitled to them. Some twenty men and women are kept
employed from morning to night in carrying on this circulating
library; and there is, moreover, attached to the establishment a
large reading-room supplied with papers and magazines, open to the
public of Boston on the same terms.

Of course I asked whether a great many of the books were not lost,
stolen, and destroyed; and of course I was told that there were no
losses, no thefts, and no destruction. As to thefts, the librarian
did not seem to think that any instance of such an occurrence could
be found.Cambridge.

  *Since these words were written President Felton has died. I,
   as I returned on my way homewards, had the melancholy privilege
   of being present at his funeral. I feel bound to record here
   the great kindness with which Mr. Felton assisted me in obtaining
   such information as I needed respecting the Institution over
   which he presided.

I am not at all aware whether the nature of the manufacturing
corporation of Lowell is generally understood by Englishmen. I
confess that until I made personal acquaintance with the plan, I
was absolutely ignorant on the subject. I knew that Lowell was a
manufacturing town at which cotton is made into calico, and at which
calico is printed,--as is the case at Manchester; but I