It is to be regretted that there are persons in college who are so forgetful of the rights of others or of such loose morals as to remove books from the library of the French department in Sever Hall. Within the last two months, several indispensable books have disappeared. Three French dictionaries, a volume of Corneile, and one of Motiere, and other books, all in daily use, are missing. The harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will be necessary to curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock and key. Let us hope therefore, that a knowledge of the hardships and inconvenience in which others are placed, if not a sense of right and wrong, will induce the person who is at present in possession of the books to return them immediately.