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amination in order even to have one's name on the waiting-list. I n
others, one is expected to have received a college education, to have
taken a course at a library school, or to have had some years of ex-
perience in order to obtain a position on the staff.

Some women engaged in library work have made a specialty of the
rearrangement and recataloguing of libraries, others of cataloguing
large private libraries. A good salary is usually paid for this kind
of work, and of course i f a woman is at the head of a large library
she receives compensation in proportion, but the average salaries of
library assistants, in the east, at any rate, are small.

A librarian needs patience, tact, a fund of general information,
and a knowledge of books in order to make herself helpful to the
public she serves. No one should enter the profession with the idea
that it is a very lucrative one, for the majority, at least, but the
work on the whole is pleasant, interesting, and of itself an education.

FRANCES C. GIFFORD.

FRIENDS

When evening like a shrouded Dryad steals
Along the meadow and adown the hill,
Gliding so soft across my window-sill

As if my utter loneliness she feels,
And fain would chide Apolo who reveals

The sharp outlines of sorrow and of ill,
Turning from irksome tasks which daily fill
My life, I find dear friends with mute appeals
And messages from out Time's dim arcade,
Alluring me away from morbid self
And teaching life is checkered light and shade,
- And love is dearer far than earthly pelf;—
Their pleasures never cloy, nor beauties fade
These rare old friends upon my study shelf.

MARTHA RICE FURLONG, Sigma, U . C , '04