Excerpt from Common Schools of Cincinnati: Part First, Forty-Seventh Annual Report for the School-Year Ending August 31, 1876; Part Second, a Hand-Book for the School Year Ending August 31, 1877 A reference to table D, appended to this report, will enable you to make a comparison Of the work of the Library for the past year with that of the year previous. It will be seen that, although the total issue of books has been greater by volumes, the circulation has been volumes less. It will be seen, also, that this entire decrease Of circula tion has been in the department Of prose fiction, and is attributable to the fact that no attempt has been made to Supply the demand for the new works of this class, or to replace the large number of duplicates of the lighter and more popular books, which the Library formerly possessed, and which have been worn out. You will notice, however, that the loss in the out-door use Of the department Of prose fiction has been more than compensated for by the increase of the indoor use of the same. The increase in the num ber Of volumes issued in the reading-rooms is of which belong to the class of prose fiction. 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.