Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library for the Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1918 In judging of the work accomplished in the making of the new catalogue, it must be borne in mind that the number of volumes involved is but one element. This is generally taken as the basis of comparison of one library with another, but in estimating the strength of any collection we must also note the number of items on each subject, while the useful ness of the catalogue as a tool will depend largely upon the extent to which the several items are analyzed on the cards. The title of a book or a reference to it in the group to which it belongs may give no indication of some of the most valuable portions of it. That can be done only by analyzing its contents, a task which tests the skill of a cataloguer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.