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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Libraries and Museums 111 A few representative groups in the Modern Languages are the nineteenth century German authors, the mystics typified by Jakob Boehme, and the medieval French epic. Nevertheless, only a beginning has been made in supplying the works in the German and French literatures themselves, while in the collection of the allied languages of Spanish, Italian and Scandinavian the first move was authorized but a few years ago. English literature covers a wide field, from the old English authors to those of the twentieth century. Concentration has been possible on the seventeenth and eighteenth century periodicals of which there are the original issues of the Spectator, the Tatler and the London Gazette from 1665 to 1700; on English fiction prior to Sir Walter Scott; on Elizabethan and post-restoration drama; and on folk-lore. History also has an extensive field with just a few periods represented to a reasonable degree, such as Prussian history. The systematic buying of serials has given this library a gratifying proportion of the 2,000 in European history mentioned in the Richardson check list issued by the American historical association. The possession of such sets as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and the publications of the Russian and French historical societies indicates some of the source material in continental history. For English and medieval history, sources have also been sought, such as the parliamentary journals and debates, the papers or "blue books" already mentioned, the various "Rolls series," and the many publishing societies, as the Camden, the Selden, the Surtees. American history has been developed naturally for the West and Illinois, until there is now a representative collection of early western travel and rare eighteenth century items, including copies of manuscripts and original maps. Colonial history also has not been neglected. The purchase of the library of H. A. Rattermann of Cincinnati in 1915 gave to the Library an important collection on the German-Americans of North and South America and on the influence of German culture in the New World. Recent purchases in Latin American history have secured many standard legislative sets, and this large and important
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