Friends of Library
may be obtained by writing to Prof. Herbert W. Hill, director. THE FRIENDS OF THE DARTMOUTH LIBRARY marked their tenth anniversary last month by publishing a list of rare books and papers which have been added to the collections in the Treasure Room of Baker Library during the past decade. According to the report of Prof. Herbert W. West '22, secretary, the Dartmouth Library now owns excellent collections of the works of Rupert Brooke, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken and Stephen Crane.
During the past ten years, Friends of the Library have also been adding to collections of the works of Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Edward Thomas, Vachel Lindsay, Walt Whitman, Richard Jeffries, Katherine Mansfield, H. M. Tomlinson, Francis Brett Young, Michael Fairless, Edgar Watson Howe, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Kenneth Roberts, Howard Fast, William Henry Hudson, Erskine Caldwell, Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence, James Gibbons Huneker, Robert Bontine, Cunninghame Graham, Edward Garnett, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Charles Montagu Doughty, Henry Williamson, George Santayana, Roy Campbell, Theodore F. Powys and Richard Curie.
In addition the library now has a copy of the rare Verona, i486 edition of the Lucretius De Rerum Natura, a manuscript copy of the Koran, the 12-volume record of the Hauptmann kidnapping trial, and several important state papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
To help defray the cost of the recently acquired Stephen Crane collection, Pro fessor West has written a small book entitled A Stephen Crane Collection, which may be purchased for $3.50 from the College Library.
In addition to Professor West, members of the executive committee of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library are George Matthew Adams of New York City, recently elected chairman; Richard H. Mandel '26, vice-chairman, of Mt. Kisco, N. Y.; Victor M. Cutter '03 of Boston; John C. Sterling '11 and Basil O'Connor 'is, both of New York City; Dr. Robert M. Stecher '19 of Cleveland; and Thomas W. Streeter '04 of Morristown, N. J.
STASSEN AT DARTMOUTH: As part of his pre-primary swing through New Hampshire, the Republican Presidential aspirant addressed an overflow crowd in Webster Hall on March 4. Seated on the stage is Earl Hewitt, editor of the Hanover Gazette, who ran strongly as a delegate pledged to Stassen but diid not make it as Dewey won six of the state's eight delegates. Hanover voted overwhelmingly for Stassen.
