New school history of the United States . ctions, and by thoseof other countries and other times, is shown by the rapid in-crease of public and private collections. It is supposed thatthere were no more than twenty-nine public libraries in the * The number of periodical publications exceeds ten thousand. Their circula-tion is about thirty-six millions, taking the returns of 1870 as the basis of calcu-lation. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, colonies, containing only forty-five thousand six hundred andtwenty-three volumes, when the Declaration of Independencewas signed. In the centennial year the
New school history of the United States . ctions, and by thoseof other countries and other times, is shown by the rapid in-crease of public and private collections. It is supposed thatthere were no more than twenty-nine public libraries in the * The number of periodical publications exceeds ten thousand. Their circula-tion is about thirty-six millions, taking the returns of 1870 as the basis of calcu-lation. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, colonies, containing only forty-five thousand six hundred andtwenty-three volumes, when the Declaration of Independencewas signed. In the centennial year the public libraries num-bered three thousand six hundred and eighty-two, and theypossessed twelve million two hundred and seventy-six thou-sand nine hundred and sixty-four volumes, besides uncountedpamphlets. LITERATURE. 164. The domestic production of literature has beenoverwhelming in quantity. The promiscuous mass, most ofwhich will, and should, speedily perish, is enriched by theworks of several illustrious authors, who have secured for. A HISTORIC HOUSE : WASHINGTONS HEAD-QUARTERS—HOME OF LONG-FELLOW. their names a high place in the temple of fame. Bryant andPoe and Longfellow ; Cooper and Hawthorne ; Irving and SCIENCE AND THE FINE ARTS, 297 Tickiior; Prescott and Motley, are the most eminent on thelong roll. SCIENCE. 165. American science has been directed more topractical results than to abstract speculation. Yet muchhas been accomplished in late years. The Smithsonian Insti-tution * is founded on a foreigners liberality. But richly en-dowed observatories and technological institutes are multipliedby the munificence of native benefactors. Already Americanscience can boast of conspicuous triumphs in the coast sur-vey, the geodetical, topographical, and geological explorationsof the country, the physical geography of the oceans, and thesystem of meteorological observations. It can point with pride to many distinguished was a Swiss, and Draper an Englishman, b
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