Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1912 — Wholesale Burning of Books. [ARTICLE]

Wholesale Burning of Books.

The French should win Edmund Gosse’s commendation for the wholesale manner in which they have destroyed books. They have even gone to the extent of coining a special word, "bibliolytle,” to donate “la destruction volontalre des livres.” The greatest date in the annals of Mbliolytie is 1790, when church property was confiscated by the revolutionary government During that year, in Paris alone. 808,120 volume* taken from monasteries and convents were burned, and throughout the whole country the total destroyed is said to have amounted to M 94.400.