Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — The World’s Greatest Library. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Greatest Library.

The greatest library in the world Is the Blbliotheque National?, In Paris. It contains 1,400,000 volumes, 300,000 pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts, and 150,000 coins and medals. The collection of engravings numbers upwards of 1,300,000, and the portraits number about 100,000.