Let us see what it has done in that time for temperance literature and the direction and growth of a public sentiment adverse to the liquor traffic.

We let the efficient corresponding secretary and publishing agent, J.N.Stearns, speak for the association he so ably represents.

Its rooms are at No.

58 Reade Street, New York.

Referring to the initial work of the society, "It was resolved," says Mr.Stearns, "that the publishing agent should keep 'all the temperance literature of the day.' This was found to consist of less than a dozen different publications in print, and these of no special value.