RARE ADDITIONS TO LAW LIBRARY

During the past year the Law School Library has been considerably enlarged in several respects but more especially has it developed in the direction of South America. Up until a few years ago the only significant collection in this country of the laws and legal writings of the southern republics was at the Library of Congress in Washington. In the spring of 1913, however, an opportunity presented itself whereby the Law School now stands among the first of american institutions in the collection of South American juris-prudence. The opportunity came through a trip to South America by Dr. Lichtenstein on a book hunting expedition for another institution, since he agreed to buy whatever books he could for the Law Library. Dr. Lichtenstein has now been in South America for over a year during which time he has visited all the republics and has bought for the Law School complete, or nearly complete, collections of their legislation, the reports of their courts, and the works of their great legal writers, much of which has already arrived in Cambridge. Works of this character have been sought for by the School for several years but the results have, for the most part, been fragmentary.