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NEWSPAPER OFFICES, LIBEARIES, AND NEWS-ROOMS.
GLASGOW ART CLUB.
Wm. Dennistoua, president; Robert Tennent,
vice-president ; Win. Young, secretary and treasurer.
The object of this Club is the study of art, which
is promoted by the circulation monthly amongst its
members of a book of original sketches, and by criti-
cisms thereon, and by conversations and the reading
of essays on subjects connected with art.
The' meetings of the Club are held on the last
Saturday of each month.
NEWS? A PEE OFFICES, LIBEASISS, AND HEWS-EOOMS.
NEWSPAPER OFFICES AND DAYS OF
PUBLICATION.
Artizan Engineering Jodknal, 1st of each
month ; office, 20 Buchanan Street.
Christian News, Saturday Morning, 1-12 Trong.
Evening Citizen, Daily, 34 St. Enoch Square.
Fkeemasons' Magazine, Saturday Morning;
office, 20 Buchanan Street.
Glasgow Citizen, Saturday, 34 St. Enoch Sq.
Glasgow Evening Post, Daily, 13 Turner's
Court, 87 Argyle Street,
Glasgow Heeald, Daily; office, 28 St. Vincent
Place, and after September at 63 and 67 Buchanan
Street, and C6 Mitchell Street.
Glasgow Saturday Post and Paisley and
Renfrewshire Reformer, Saturday, 13 Turner's
Court, 87 Argyle Street.
Glasgow Sentinel and Scottish Banner,
Saturday, Ann Street.
Glasgow Times, Wednesday, Ann Street.
Glasgow Weekly Herald ; office, 28 St. Vin-
cent Place, and after September at 63 and 67
Buchanan Street, and 66 Mitchell Street.
Glasgow Weekly Mail, 102 to 114 Union St.
Ladies' Own Journal, Saturday Morning, 10
Royal Exchange Square.
League Journal, Saturday, 108 Hope Street.
Mercantile Advertiser, Shipping Gazette,
AND National Property List, published every
Tuesday, 74 Buchanan Street.
Morning Journal, Daily, 13 Turner's Court,
87 Argyle Street.
North British Advertiser, Saturday Morning,
10 Royal Excliange Square.
North British Daily Mail, 102 to 114 Union
Street.
Penny Post, Saturday, Ann Street.
Property Circular, every Tuesday, 59 St.
George's Place.
Scottish Journal, Saturday, Ann Street.
The British Friend, 1st of each month; office,
Partick.
The Daily Express, Daily, 80 St. Vincent St.
GLASGOW PUBLIC LIBRARY,
15 Bath Street. — Instituted 1804.
Terms. — Ordinary subscription, 123. 6d.perannum ;
students, 53. for winter session ; commercial firms,
21s. per annum — for which 21s. four readers may be
enrolled as members of the librarv.
Curators— W. Kidston, R. B. Kirkland, D. Sande-
man, J. Burns, R. Goodwin, J. Braid woo J, D. Bell, H.
H. Galloway, W. R. Crombie ; 6. Hunter, secretary ;
P. S. Faill, treasurer ; D. Blackadder, librarian ; R.
Knox, acting librarian.
STIRLING'S PUBLIC LIBRARY,
48 Miller Street.
Founded in 1791 by the late Walter Stirling,
merchant in Glasgovr, and has since received many
very valuable additions from various donors. The
estimated number of volumes at present in the library
is about 30,000.
The library is open daily from 10 till 4, and from
7 till 9 in the evening, excepting Saturday?, when it
is closed at 12. It is the only free library in Glas-
gow, and the public are supplied with ample facilities
for oonsuliiiig the books iu the library hall. Closed
in July for cleaning.
Life subscription to lending department, £5 5s. ;
annual subscription 15s. the first year, and 10s. 6c!.
yearly aftervvaids.
Directors — From the Town Council, the Lcrd
Provost, Bailies Murray and W. Millar, and 'William
Wilson ; from Presbytery of Glasgow, Dr. David
M-Taggart, the Rev. R. W. Thomson and Rev. Geo.
Little ; from Faculty of Phy&icians and Surgeons, Dr.
Howatt, Dr. Geo. Buchanan, Dr. Perry; from Mer-
chants' House, Dr. W. G. Blackie, Archd. Orr Ewing,
John Smith ; from subscribers, W. P. Allardyce, G.
W. Clark, J. A. Begg, R. S. Cunliff, Rev. Dr.
■Jamieson, Michael Connal, Walter M'Farlane, Geo.
Buchanan, M.D.
Geo. Wilson Clark, hon. secretary; Wm. Euing,
extraordinary director; R. S. CunlifF, treasurer:
David Blair, librarian.
ROYAL EXCHANGE NEV/S-ROOM,
Queen Street,
Receives regularly all the London, English, Previa
cial, Scotch, and Irish newspapers ; also, Coramercia
Lists, French, German, Colonial, Canton, and Ameri-
can papers, with all the leading Reviews, Magazinea
&e. Open daily from 8 morning till 10 evening
Strangers who are introduced by Subscribers, nol
charged, unless they attend for more than four weeka.
Officers in garrison, adjutants of Volunteers, and con-
suls who do no business on their own account, are
permitted the fies use of the room.
Chairman, William Euing; directors, L. Robert-,
son, James M'Cleland, Archibald Smith, Alexander
Miller, Robert Aitken, Robert Black, W. A. Ander-
son, James White, William Euing, Robert ChrystaJ,
James Stevenson, Robert Walker, Robert M'Clure,
Richard Kidston, and John AVhite; secretary and
treasurer, Robert Stevenson.