People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — "Books In the Running Brooks!” [ARTICLE]

"Books In the Running Brooks!”

There is no knowiqg where the Bodleian library at Oxford will leave off. At present it is literally overflowing with the literature, if not the laming, of the age. It has, like the library of the British museum, to be supplied with a oopv of every work published, Mid naturally the strain put upon its limited resources has been too great for it. A long time ago the library itself could hold no more books, and the Radcliffe camera was called into the service of the librarian. That got full, and then the basement of the Sheldoniau theater was obtained. This is also full now, and the basement of the Ashmolean museum is now a home for what would otherwise be homeless books. At the present rate it is not improbable that the library will spread and spread until it completely overflows and swamps the whole university town itself. That, however, is not likely to be just yet, in spite of the activity of the “lady novelist.’’—Pearson’s Weekly.