Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . l growth. It is located atLondon, and is known as the British Museum. It dates from 1753, when Parlia-ment purchased, for £20,000, the Sir Hans Sloane collection, and afterwardsconsolidated therewith many other valuable collections. It was given theprivilege of copyright, by which means, and by f
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . l growth. It is located atLondon, and is known as the British Museum. It dates from 1753, when Parlia-ment purchased, for £20,000, the Sir Hans Sloane collection, and afterwardsconsolidated therewith many other valuable collections. It was given theprivilege of copyright, by which means, and by frequent and fortunate privatebequests of books, it grew apace and became a national repository, not onlyof home-written works, but of the literature and rarities of all nations. Thenumber of its volumes at present exceeds 1, London does not containmany public libraries, but there are numerous collections of scientific andspecial works of great value to those pursuing certain lines of second largest and most important collection in England is that of theBodleian Library of Oxford, with some 530,000 volumes ; followed by that ofthe University of Cambridge,with some 510,000 volumes. Next in extent andimportance in Great Britain is the library of the Faculty of Advocates, in. GREAT GROWTH OF LIBRARIES 165 Edinburgh, Scotland. It dates from 1682, and contains at present about400,000 volumes. The library of Trinity College, Dublin, was founded contem-poraneously with the Bodleian, and easily ranks as the largest and most im-portant in Ireland, with its 200,000 volumes, to which about 3000 are addedannually. What has been said of the dearth of public libraries in London isin part true of all Great Britain. There are not a score of binaries in all herEuropean domain that number over 100,000 volumes, and it is only withinthe nineteenth century that the public or free library system began to growin favor. Indeed, such growth may be said to date from as late a perio
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