. Essex county, , illustrated . mm. MAIN ROOM OK THE FREE LIBRARY. ,\1^\\ARK TECHNICAL SCHOOL, OX HIGH STREET. library of the city, which contained the greatest collection ofbooks, pamphlets and manuscripts in the world. It was not theaudacious crime alone of burning the liljrary, of committing tothe flames the literary treasures of all preceding ages, but thefact that many of the volumes which had been gathered at amighty expenditure from all parts of the globe, many of whichwere of the greatest value and could not be replaced, there beingno duplicates, when their preciousI conte
. Essex county, , illustrated . mm. MAIN ROOM OK THE FREE LIBRARY. ,\1^\\ARK TECHNICAL SCHOOL, OX HIGH STREET. library of the city, which contained the greatest collection ofbooks, pamphlets and manuscripts in the world. It was not theaudacious crime alone of burning the liljrary, of committing tothe flames the literary treasures of all preceding ages, but thefact that many of the volumes which had been gathered at amighty expenditure from all parts of the globe, many of whichwere of the greatest value and could not be replaced, there beingno duplicates, when their preciousI contents had crumbled to ashes \ and had gone up in fire and smoke, amid the exultations of the savagehordes who made up the army ofdestruction and loot. Which danced .irouiul this funeral pyre of tlie wreathing smoke left the world in half million volumes of book lore furnishing the feed ihe fire consuming, eartlislieauti- ful jewels. I was there, through tliis unheard of Mahonunedan ,That Mal
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