Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGHMAN

Allen gift. Mrs. George Henry Allen has presented to Avery
Library the collection of books formed by her late husband. The
collection comprises works on German, Scandinavian, folk and
prehistoric architecture.

Baramz gift. Dean Jacques Barzun (A.B., 1927; Ph.D., 1932) has
presented funds to be used to purchase the 1950 edition of Pascal's
Pensees, containing 57 etchings by the French cubist, Albert
Gleizes. A copy of this rare work may become available soon, and
if so, it will be a welcome companion to Dean Barzun's recent gift
of Gleizes' earlier production, Mercereau's La Conque Miracu-
leuse, published in Paris in 1922. The latter item was a notable
feature in the summer Butler Library exhibition, "Great Printing
Through Five Centuries".

Blau gift. Professor Joseph L. Blau (A.B., 1931; A.M., 1933;
Ph.D., 1944) has presented a fine letter from AA'illiam James to
John Dewey, 3 December 1903.

Bonom gift. Mr. Paul J. Bonora has added to liis earlier benefac¬
tions a collection of 117 items, including works of general useful¬
ness and 24 L-P classical recordings.

Burton gift. Mr. and Mrs. J. Campbell Burton (M.B.A., 1956)
have presented a useful group of English literary works of the
18th century, including some by Swift and Smollett and editions
of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Cane gift. Mr. Melville Cane (A.B., 1900; LL.B., 1903), as execu¬
tor of the Will   of the late Donald C. Brace (A.B., 1904), has

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