VOL. III.            MAY 1954            NUMBER 3.

THE   FRIENDS  OF  THE  COLUMBIA  LIBRARIES

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Vicissitudes of Books..........i

Berkeley and Johnson: The Story of a Friendship

John Murray Cuddihy.........3

The Peccancies of T. J. Wise, et al.

Roland Baughman...........12

Rare Books and Manuscripts; Their Care, Preservation and
Restoration
Polly Lada-Mocarski and Laura S. Young    .     .     .     .     29

Our Growing Collections

Roland Baughman...........31

Activities of the Friends..........38
 

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

John Murray Cuddihy is former instructor in Philosophy at Columbia
College and now guest lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of
Psychiatry.

Roland Baughman is Head of the Special Collections Department in the
Columbia University Libraries.

Polly Lada-Mocarski and Laura S. Young are both members of the
Friends of the Columbia Libraries' Committee on the Binding and Preser¬
vation of Books and Manuscripts. Mrs. Young is also Lecturer in Graphic
Arts at Columbia.