Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Thirty-Nine Miles of Literature. [ARTICLE]

Thirty-Nine Miles of Literature.

The shelves of the reading room and iron galleries constructed around it, which are known the New Library, in the British Museum, all told extend to more than eight and twenty miles; those in the rest of the department to eleven miles. It may be noticed that this total of thirty-nine miles i.« 5 nearly the same as that of the shelving of the French National Library, according to recent calculations. The prospect of increase of this milage may be reviewed crease of this mileage may be viewed with comparative equanimity in connection with the storage of the ordinary octavos of literature; but when one contemplates the rapid growth of Newspapers, the limits of the available space within the present buildings are almost within sight—Westminster Gazette.