The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-03-06
W. C. AND L. ASSOCIATION COLUMN.
Edited in the interest of the Cairo Public Library
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.
The Peoria public library has 5O3 mem
bers and 1900 volumes.

| mat Lass o LOWrleS, ana other stories
which have attracted much attention,
lives quietly and pleasantly in Washington,
her family consisting oil two attractive chill
dren and husband, an oculst, who has
already gained considerable distinction in
his calling. Although professionally liter
airy, she is so domestic that those unac-
qualnted with her writings would not sus-
pect the fact Her graceful fingers show
no traces Of ink. She is represented as
very simple and unaffected in manner and
strikingly bright ind original in CON
versation. Personally she is plump
almost too plump for short stature
She wears her soft brown hair braided
behind and frizzled in front, to
cover what she calls horrid great tore
head, which is really too square and too
projecting for beauty. Her nose is good,
though rather large her jaw and mouth are
firm, with pretty teeth and a cordial
| charming smile, often breaking into a Jolly
laugh. Her eyes are large, intense, very
expressive Of indefinite, ever.changing col
or, though ordinarily Of lustrous gray
She speaks frankly Of her writings, enjoys
her popularity as an author, and is greatly
amused at the things said to her about
! them. She seems to have no jealousy or
envy IN her composition, to be wholly un-
conventional, and in every way free and
large, On her new book, Mercy she is
still hard at work and regrets that its re-
quiremements have kept her this season so
much out Of society, Of which she is very
found, She appears to have keen sense
Of enjoyment, for she gets pleasure from all
kinds Of occupation and all kinds of people.
ABOUT LIBRARIES.
\ correspondent asks which are the
largest three Libraries in the world and
which the largest three in the country. By
far the largest IN the.world is the National
Library at Paris, which in
1874, contained 100000 printed
books and 10000 manuscripts.
which the next largest is, it is difficult to
say, for the British Museum and the In
perial Library of St. Petersburg both had,
in 1874, 100000 volumes. After them
comes the Royal Library of Munich with its
100000 books. The Vatican Library at
Rome is sometimes enormously supposed
TO be among the largest, while in point of
tact it is surpassed, so far as the number
of volumes goes, by more than sixty
European collections. 1t contains 100000
printed books and 2j,j0O manu-
scripts. The National Library at Paris is
one Of the very oldest in Europe, having
been founded in 1850, while the British
Museum dates from 1852 or time more
than 400 years later. In the United States
the largest is the Library of Congress at
Washington, which in 1874 contained
26l 900 volumes. The Boston Public fol-
lowed very closely after it with 260,j00
volumes, and the Harvard University col.
lection came next with 100000. The As.
tor and Mercantile, of New York, are next,
each having $4,000. Among the colleges
after Harvard'S Library, comes Yale's with
100000 Dartmouths is next with j0,000
and then come in order Cornell with 40
900 the University Of Virginia with $4,000
Bowdoin with $4,000; the University of
South Carolina, with 10000; Ann Arbor,
10000, Amherst, 10000 Princeton $4,000;
Wesleyan, 25,500, and Columbia, $4,000
Antiquarian.
THE chronology Of the Arundclian mar
bles begins, when Cecrops is supposed to
have come into Attica. The chronicles,
known by the appcllation of the Parian or
Arundelian marbles, are engraved in large
Greek capitals, and were discovered in the
Isle Of paros, one of the Cycladcs, at the
commencement Of the seventeenth century.
They were conveyed to England by the
order of the Earl of Arundel, whose grand.
son caused them to be deposited il
the library at Oxford. The chronicle was
engraved in the year 264 b, G., 1t com
mcnces with the foundation of Athens in
1882 and concludes in the year 3Gi b, c.
This valuable remnant Of antiquity has been
the means Of rectifying many statements in
the ancient history Of Greece, rs well as
the heroic and fabulous periods, etc, The
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