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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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110 Sixteen Years ai the University of Illinois bought in 1914, has made the Classics library one of the best working classical libraries in the Middle West. It is especially strong in epigraphy, history and grammar, in editions of Greek and Latin authors, and in sets of classical journals. The Economics library has been built up along the lines of economics theory, history, labor, socialism, money and banking, public finance, commerce, transportation and insurance. Its strength is shown in that it was selected as one of fourteen libraries to be represented in a check list on the economics of railway transportation. Municipal documents have been collected with much energy and care. They comprise charters, council proceedings, ordinances and reports of all important cities in the United States and in foreign countries, as well as city journals, and the publications of municipal leagues and civic clubs. The items run to over 3,000 titles. In addition to this, the Political Science Department has developed a collection of the proceedings of constitutional conventions which is of more than ordinary importance. The library also has important collections of the United States government documents, the British "blue books," the German Reichstag proceedings, the Spanish parliamentary papers and other official documents. A foundation of the development of an educational library was laid when the Aron7 library, containing 5,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets, was purchased in 1913. Features of this collection are the original and early editions of Comenius, and the fundamental treatises of Pestalozzi and Proebel. German language and literature was strengthened in 1908 by the gift of the Karsten8 library and in 1909 by the purchase of the Heyne9 library; while the romance languages were bolstered in 1912 by the purchase of the Grober10 library. On the basis of these collections there is opportunity for work and study in philology and linguistics, which has been further enriched by the purchase of several hundred dictionaries of all languages, and special treatises. TDr. B. Aron, professor in Berlin University •G-ustav E. Karsten, professor in the Univ. of HI. "Mortiz Heyne, professor in Gottingen University "Gustav QrOber, professor in Strassburg University
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