Collection of Slovak Literature.

The Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature.

The collection at present contains about a thousand volumes, and from these Mr. Wiener expects to secure material for a history of the Slovak language. The money for the collection was given by Assistant Professor Coolidge and the Library.