‘Among the periodicals in the collection are La Pere Peinard, published in Paris by E. Pouget from 1889 to 1896, only two copies being known; Der Socializt, published in Berlin; the Alarm, which comes from Chicago; La Questione Sociale, an Italian paper printed in Paterson, N.J.; El Porvenir Anarquista, from Barcelona, Spain; Gazeta Robotnicza, a Polish publication from Chicago; Volne Listy, a New York anarchistic paper in the Czechish tongue: Freedom, the great organ of the London agitators; the Beacon, printed in San Francisco; Le Tempre Nouveau [Les Temps Noveaux], Prince Krapotkin [Kropotkin]’s paper, and Caserio, which appears in Buenos Ayres [Aires], the capital of the Argentine Republic. These periodicals are printed in English, German, French, all the Scandinavian languages, new Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slavonic, Czechish, Spanish, Yiddish and many other dialects and languages. [3]
‘On the opening of Columbia’s one hundred and fiftieth year in the autumn the entire collection will be placed conspicuously on view in the university library. A member of the faculty who has specialized in this field made the following comment on the anarchica:
‘“The collection has equal interest for students of modern history, of sociology, of penology and of morbid psychology; and it is unquestionably the most complete of its kind, not only in the United States, but in the world.”
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