Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

Barnouw gift. Miss Elsa Barnouw has donated a group of twenty-
nine volumes and pamphlets from the collection of her father. Dr.
Adriaan Barnouw, many of which relate to Dutch history and
language. Included in the gift is a copy of Albert Smith's The
Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and
Abroad, illustrared by John Leech.

Barnett Family gift. The papers of rhe late Eugene F'.pperson
Barnett have been received as a gift from the members of the
Barnett Family, including his widow, his daughter, Mrs. Eugenia
B. Schulrheis, and his sons, iMr. Robert Barnett and Mr. Arthur
Doak Barnett. Comprising more than forty thousand letters and
documents, the papers record Eugene Barnett's career from his
college days in the first decade of this century to his death in 1970.
The papers document his work as general secretary of the Young
Men's Christian Association, his years in pre-Communist China,
his activities as a lay leader in the Methodist Church, and his affilia¬
tions with several United Nations and other national and inter¬
national organizarions.

Barzun gift. Dr. Jacques Barzun (A.B., 1927; Ph.D., 1932) has
donated a number of important and useful works, including: a
fine set in the original binding of The Works of John Ruskin,
published in London, 1903-1912, in 39 volumes; William Shake¬
speare's The Phoenix and Tw'tle, one of 30 copies printed by the
Officina Bodoni in \^erona in 1974; bound files of The Grifjin,
published by the Readers' Subscription, 1951-1959, ^^"1 The Mid-
Century, published by the .Mid-Century Book Society, 1959-
1962; and two items bearing inscriptions by Guillaume Apolli-

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