"BRICK ROW PRINT AND BOOK SHOP" OPENED AT NEW HAVEN

The Brick Row Print and Book Shop, recently incorporated by a group of Yale graduates, desirous of offering undergraduates the chance of forming a discriminating acquaintance with old books and prints, was informally opened at New Haven early in the week. Some 200 undergraduates and about 25 members of the faculty were present. Professor E. B. Reed of Yale outlined the prospective growth of the new shop and its many advantages.

The American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books is to go directly to well-stocked shelves and to discover unknown titles and authors.

The new shop will mean much to students who desire to collect books and yet who do not know how to select their purchases or how much they should pay for them. Here there will always be some one to advise them; and already this new shop has an extremely interesting collection of rare editions and fine bindings. The greatest field for this new Yale institution will be in second-hand books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Good editions of the writers of the Queen Anne and Georgian ages may be purchased reasonably and the time is not far away when the upper room of the shop will be stacked with old authors whom all know or should know.

If this new institution develops into such a shop as Dobbell's in London, or Blackwell's at Oxford, its founding will mark a veritable epoch in Yale life. It has a convenient location and the shop is itself attractive. This augurs well for its future and its aim is to have something for everyone: books in fine bindings, first editions, books illustrated by famous artists, Americana, books about Yale and by Yale graduates, old-time literature, prints and original drawings.