25 JULY 1891, Page 25

The Library. A Magazine of Bibliography and Literature. Edited by

J. Y. W. MacAlister, F.S.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is the second annual issue of an interesting magazine. The free- library movement, with its successes and reverses, is chronicled ; , there are practical suggestions for the safe keeping of books ; notes on rare and valuable volumes ; descriptions of libraries (Sion College Library and the Gladstone Library, for instance). The magazine has for its primary object to be the "organ of the Library Association of the 'United Kingdom," but it deals with many cognate topics.