Excerpt from Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees of the New York State Library: For the Year 1874 The number of books added to the library during the year is greater than that of any of the three years preceding, but the pro portion obtained by purchase does not reach the average number of those years. This is accounted for by the fact that so large a part of the purchases were for the law library, the prices of law treatises and reports being larger than of works on general literature and science which are purchased for the general library; and by the additional fact that fewer opportunities than usual occurred during the year to make purchases at any considerable discount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.