VOL.11.            MAY  1953            NUMBER 3.

THE   FRIENDS  OF  THE   COLUMBIA  LIBRARIES

publish the Columns three times a year at Butler Library, Columbia
University, New York 27, N.Y. Current single numbers, one dollar.
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Burning the Books............i

The Friendly Libraries

Colton Storm............2

Columbia's Giant Encyclopedia:
Plimpton Manuscript No. 263

Bertha M. Frick...........8

Spirits, Poets and Poetry

in the Thomas S. Jones Collection........16

Our Growing Collections

Roland Baughman...........21

Other Recent Gifts............25

The Editor Visits the Law Library.......16

Activities of the Friends..........30