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Excerpt from The Eleventh Annual Report of the Free Libraries Committee: March 26th, 1888, to March 25th, 1889 The Free Libraries Committee have pleasure in presenting their Eleventh Annual Report of the work of the Library. During the year 1888-9 the Committee have given Special attention to the Lending Department, which has been in use by the public upwards of eleven years a considerable number of volumes needed replacement, while the Juvenile Section, from the excessive ly hard usage to which it has been subjected by two generations of juvenile readers, needed a thorough reorganization. Besides re placing a large number of worn-out Volumes, and placing the Juvenile Section on a sound footing once more, the 'heavier sections of the Library have been considerably strengthened by the addition of a large number of new works, and of standard manuals of science and art. 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.