Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fifty-First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo Library and Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Real Estate: Annual Meeting, February 28, 1887; Also, a Report of the Exercises Which Accompanied the Opening Reception Held in the New Library and Art Building, Monday Evening, February 7th, 1887
Our purchases are necessarily limited, much more than they ought to be, to current literature in the classes most demanded by general readers. In the literature of natural science, for example, we can go not much beyond the popular and elementary books. In the literature of the fine arts the more important and more expensive works are mostly forbidden to us. In the field Of American history we are gathering very slowly the minuter records - the annals of States, towns and families, of institutions and societies - which every complete American library ought to possess. In foreign history we accumulate still more slowly the old chronicles and memoirs which are at the bottom of any thorough knowledge of it. We are compelled, in fact, by the narrowness of our means, to build up a library which is appropriated too strictly to the superficial reader, and too little to the deeper student, in all departments. 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.
