Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Books in the British Museum. [ARTICLE]

Books in the British Museum.

People often ask how many books there are In the British Museum, but nobody seems to know. In fact there are so many that it is impossible to count them. Some years ago it was estimated by measurement that there were 2,000,000 books there. Since that estimate was the number has considerably increased, so that at the present time the total is probably nearer 3,000,000.