CONTENTS Address to the Library Association - Public Libraries and Their Catalogues - The Printing of the British Museum Catalogue - The Past, Present, and Future of the British Museum Catalogue - The British Museum Catalogue as the Basis of a Universal Catalogue - Introduction of European Printing into the East - Paraguayan and Argentine Bibliography - The Early Italian Book Trade - Some Book-Hunters of the Seventeenth Century - Librarianship in the Seventeenth Century - The Manufacture of Fine Paper in England in the Eighteenth Century - On Some Colophons of the Early Printers - On the System of Classifying Books on the Shelves Followed at the British Museum - Subject-indexes to Transactions of Learned 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 Libraries - Preface to Blades' "Enemies of Books" - Sir Anthony Panizzi, K. C. B. - The Late John Winter Jones, V. P. S. A. - The Late Henry Stevens, F. S. A. - The Late Sir Edward A. Bond, K. C. B. - Index Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum and also wrote biographies of Carlyle, Emerson, Gibbon and Coleridge.