Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — Mammoth Libraries. [ARTICLE]

Mammoth Libraries.

The largest library in the world is that at Paris, which contains upward of 2,000,000 printed books and 100,000 manuscripts. Between the imperial library at St. Petersburg and the British museum there is not much d.fference. In the British museum there are about 1,500,000 volumes. The royal library of Munich has now something over 900,000, but this includes many pamphlets; the royal library at Berlin contains 800,000 volumes; the library at Copenhagen 510,000; the library at Dresden, 500,000; the university library at Gottingen, Germany, 600,000. The royal library at Vienna has 400,000 volumes and the university library in the same city 370,000 volumes. At Buda-Pesth the university library has 300,000 books; the corresponding library at Cracow nearly the same number, and at Prague 205,000.