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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7267, 30 November 1901, Page 7

poems by Buchanan thiat have not before appeared an book form 1 .- It closes with a very touching verse entitled "The Last Cry":— • Forget me not, but come, O King,. , And find me softly slumbering, In dark and troubled dreams at Thee, Then, with one waft of Thy bright wiag, Awaken nxe? With the rapidly-increasing growth of free libraries is springing up among librarians a commendable desine to assist the reader 'by means of the catalogue. The librarian! of the Douglas Free Library has just issued with the list of fiction a kind of guide, consisting of a few terse sentences giving the aim and "pitfa \of each novel. This help meed not bs confined to novels; at brief, summary of the contents of inany books could b9 given, and afford valuable aid. to the student. An effective attempt of this kind is mad© in the Lewisham Free Library ciMtalogue; where the title of the author is nob clear, a brief synopsis, with some information concerning the standpoint from which it was written, greatly assists the choice of a book. Another c&mmiemdable feature is that of placing between, brackets the period covered by itihe hiisbory or travels, rather than the date of publication, which often misleads the borrower.