Interesting Addition to the Library

An addition to the collections of the college library is an interesting collection of plaster casts of the hands of famous men, both living and dead, presented by Mr. Kendall Banning '02. The hands, which are displayed in the south end of the second story stack of the library, are those of Voltaire, Goethe, Rubenstein, Lincoln, Wm. Morris Hunt, the famous painter, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Thomas A. Edison, Richard Watson Gilder, late editor of the Century Magazine, and Andrew Carnegie.

The donor of this collection is the eastern editorial representative of the System magazine, and lives in New York City. During his college course, Mr. Banning was one of the compilers of the "Songs of the Hill Winds," an attractive volume of Dartmouth verse. Having always taken an interest in literary and artistic matters, and having since graduation made a study of casts of noted men's hands, he has now presented Dartmouth with this excellent collection.

Princeton University has an interesting collection of plaster masks, presented by the late Laurence Hutton, but it is believed that its collection includes a smaller number of casts of hands than does the one just installed in the library.