Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGHMAN

Anonymous. The East Asiatic Library is deriving singular benefit
from an acquisition gift fund made available by an anonymous
benefactrix who is contributing to the development of Far East¬
ern studies at Columbia University. Nine titles (in 47 volumes)
of rare Chinese and Japanese imprints dating back as far as 1547
have been purchased from the fund. Several are valuable for the
study of the introduction of Western science and other learning
into the Far East; others are particularly interesting as early ex¬
amples of printing from wooden and metal moveable type. Also
purchased from the gift fund and now en route from a Japanese
bookdcalcr is the Chosen shiryo sokan, complete in 100 parts.
Its addition completes the Library's holdings of key primary
source materials for the study of Korea and Korean East Asian
relations.

Aubrun gift. .Mile. Germaine Aubrun has presented a charming
two-volume edition of Ccr\-antes' Don Quijote (Barcelona, 1916),
exemplary of fine Spanish typography and containing exquisite
illustrations by Vierge.

Barrett gift. Mr. C. AV'aller Barrett has selected the Columbia
Libraries to be the recipient of a valuable assemblage of \\'orks
by and about Lafcadio Hearn. Included are 27 works in 29 edi¬
tions, including the rare first issues of La Cuisine Creole (New
York, 1885) and Stray Leaves front Strange Literature (Boston,
 

Bassett gift. Mrs. Henry Bassett of Garrison, New York, has pre¬
sented three Babylonian clay tablets and two palm-leaf manu-

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