egree suffer because of the lack of
such facilities. A personal contact, however agreeable, does
not seem essential. Certainly the many charming letters
received from members whom we have never seen, go far to
relieve the present lack in this regard, so far as the
officers are concerned.

As matters now stand, the Society has sufficiently comfortable
quarters in one of the offices of the Treasurer, where the
Council holds its meetings. These are found by experience to
be quite ample for all practical purposes and present needs.

Collectors of manuscripts and of unique copies often furnish the book
clubs with valuable and otherwise unprocurable material to be printed
for the members. Last year one collector alone furnished gratuitously
to a society of which he is a member, many thousands of dollars' worth
of unpublished manuscripts of interesting historical matter to be
printed exclusively for its members. In this way much valuable
material is preserved in print, when it would otherwise remain forever
unpublished and unobtainable.

During the past few years it has been my pleasant privilege to spend
many hours of each week in concurrent labor with the Council in the
preparation of the publications of The Bibliophile Society, in which
Council I have had the honor to serve continuously since its
organization.

There is no pleasure more delectable, no joy more inspiring than that
of devising books which prove a delight to the eye and a satisfaction
to the artistic tastes of those who are competent to appreciate the
qualities that should characterize a perfectly made book.

I now realize as never before why it is that our busiest men of
affairs, and scholars of renown, are actuated to serve so assiduously
in this labor of love; for surely no amount of effort, however
laborious, can be regarded as having been in any sense misguided or
wasted when it elicits such approbation as expressed in the following
letter from Charles A. Decker, Esq., a fellow member, of New York
City:--

March 15th, 1904.

MR. H. H. HARPER, Treasurer,
The Bibliophile Society,
Colonial Building, Boston, Mass.

DEAR MR. HARPER:--

My stock of superlatives is insufficient to adequately express
my appreciation of "Andre's Journal." Keats must have had a
psychic sense which enabled him to see the latest issue by our
Society,