. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. on the surface, the source is entirely hiddenfrom the eye. There is no glare. Gas finds no place in the building. All the windowsare made of muffled and tinted glass, which diffuses a soft light, and at the sametime tends to preserve the leather bindings. Since the collection was taken over by the State it has been under the imme-diate care of Mr. Hugh Wright, the assistant librarian of the Free Public Wrighl is now the Mitchell Librarian, under the general supervision of Mr. Bladen,the princijjal of the Free Library. An enthu
. Historical notes : Public Library of New South Wales. on the surface, the source is entirely hiddenfrom the eye. There is no glare. Gas finds no place in the building. All the windowsare made of muffled and tinted glass, which diffuses a soft light, and at the sametime tends to preserve the leather bindings. Since the collection was taken over by the State it has been under the imme-diate care of Mr. Hugh Wright, the assistant librarian of the Free Public Wrighl is now the Mitchell Librarian, under the general supervision of Mr. Bladen,the princijjal of the Free Library. An enthusiastic and efficient curator of thetreasures of the collection committed to him Mr. Wright will be found to be. Butintense as has been his work during the past couple of years in overhauling andarranging the books and manuscripts, the pictures, photographs, maps, drawings,documents, coins, tokens, and the hundred-and-onc other things that compose the collec-tion, there is still years of toil ahead of him before he can hope to be cognisant of the full. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 95 extent of the treasure. There are many drawers full of documents which have yetto be sorted out; many portraits and pictures of places which have to be identifiedand classified. IN THE IRON SAFE. Meanwhile, there is enough on the walls and the shelves, and in the safes anddrawers and cupboards, where arrangement has been carried out, to keep the visitorwith an eye to see and a mind to comprehend, engaged for a lifetime. It is, ofcourse, in regard to Austrahana that the library has its chief value for us. Apartfrom the pictures, which are arranged in a fine gallery on the first floor, the rarestand most valuable articles are the original manuscript journals, note-books, letters,and drawings, either of early Austrahans themselves, or of those connected with theearliest history of the continent. From a large safe in his own room on the groundfloor Mr. Wright will produce, for instance, the v
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