| Summary: | College Library Given Two Hundred Volumes.: Collection Of Oriental Literature Presented By Dean A. E. Drucker, Wife; Korean Group Valuable. College Library Given Two Hundred Volumes Collection of Oriental Literature Presented By Dean A. E. Drucker, Wife; Korean Group Valuable The donation of over 200 volumes of oriental literature and periodicals just presented to the library by Dean and Mrs. A. E. Drucker will "form the beginning of what is hoped will develop into one of the best Oriental libraries on the Pacific coast," Professor E. H. Pritchard, student of Eastern history and culture, told the Evergreen today. The. books are from the library off Mrs. Drucker's father, Captain E. S. Barstow, recently deceased, who lived in Korea for many years. Korean Collection "The Korean donation alone is so valuable it might be worth a special effort to build it up quickly to the best in the Northwest," Professor Pritchard said after examining the collection. Books and periodicals from Korea, Japan, China, Siberia, general works on Eastern Asia and Pacific make up the oriental collection. In addition there are 18 volumes on the Arctic and Antarctic and 62 miscellaneous volumes in the donation. In the valuable Korean group, several of the books have been out of print for a long time. There are three journals of which only a few numbers were printed, copies of which now are practically extinct. In the groups is "The Korean Repository," of which 5 volumes were published between 1894 and 1898. This collection includes the last three volumes. All six volumes of the Korean Review, published between 1901 and 1906, are in the group. The two volumes of the "Korea Magazine," published in 1917 and 1918, are in the collection. Hulbert's "History of Russia," is one of the only thorough studies of Korean history ever made, was published in 1905 and has been out of print for a long time. Purchase of this volume is not possible. Particularly desirable volumes in the Japanese group are "Western Barbarians in Japan and Formosa" by Paske-Smith, and of interest of historians, "The Secret Memoirs of Count Tadusu Hayashi." The oldest book in this group is "Japan Travels and Researches," by Professor J. J. Rain, translated from the German in 1874-5. The Chinese, Eastern Asia, and Pacific collection also contains a number of valuable books.
|
|---|