Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-15
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when literature had reached its lowest ebb.
Books and learning gradually fell under
the exclusive domain Of the church. Knowl-
edge was not pursued for its own sake, but
became subsidiary to religious and theolog-
ical teaching. From the fourth to the
seventh century, learning, driven from the
continent, took refuge on the British Isles.
Irish monasteries were noted for their
books and their learning, and the venerable |
Bede was the best scholar of his age. |
York and Canterbury were also famous.
Alcuin was chosen as the most learned man |
by Charlemagne to revive learning and es- |
tablish schools throughout his dominions. |
The schools of Charlemagne became IA |
nous and stimulated molasteries and pri- |
vate individuals to renewed zeal in collect |
ing books. But on their decline the hopes
of literary revival fell and knowledge
again became the prerogative of the church
for four or five centuries. Many of the
monasteries, however, produced men who
evinced great zeal in collecting books, but
their idea was Biblical and theological and
their books were the lives of saints and
martyrs, and the writings of their fathers.
The collection and reproduction OF books
| was undertaken as discipline, and was
merely mechanical operation, greater
care being taken in transcribing neatly
and decorating elaborateiy. than Ia 'sta
ing the thought of the authoc. - -
astic libraries and discipline, howe We
owe the preservation of Latin il.~r;.~dte.
Arabian literature is a prominent feature
of medieval times, and though it threat
ened at first to destroy ancient literature,
it proved valuable assistant. The Cal
iphs became patrons of literature, eape-
cially OF Greek learning, and the libraries
of Bagdad and Cordova, Cairo and Tripoli
became famous. It was not long before
the West also felt new life, and in the
! fourteenth century modern learning began
!. to take its rise. St. Louis in France, and the
Emperor Charles Y. established many
, schools, and soon it became fashionable
: for the great to patronize learning and
lschools.
fl MODERN LIBRARIES
: follow soon after the invention OF print
. ing. The writer's describe the chief libra
= ries of each country, from which some in
y teresting facts may be CLEANED. In Eng
land there are many remarkable libraries
IS but those that concern US most are tn
y free town libraries, dating from Mr.. Ew
OA
n six towns have taken advantage of thi
= act. and the number is continually increas
It ing. There are also many subscription
y Libraries still in existence, but their nuu
ber is decreasing. In Scotland the Advo
Gates library founded in 1852; the Writers
library. 1855; the University of st. An
lrews, 1856, are the most noted. In Ire
% land, the library of Trinity college, 16O:
! and the National library, 1877, are tn
De largest. France has copious supply @
al libraries; besides the unrivaled supply j
al Paris, there is a remarkable assembiage G
u provincial, commercial and school libraries
10 There are over 1000 school libraries alone
+o Germany is emphatieally the land OF larg
libraries, which she owes to her Will: [
'A political unity and her many uni7ers!fle
~ These libraries are spread over 5S4 t''' Z
ed Austria has 577 libraries. OF which tweniJ
n three are private. 159 religious, lO5 mil
h. tsry, fifty-six scientific, 1o9 educatlon'
of and only forty-fy public. Italy, as til
a first center of civilization, has the oloe
- libraries and the rarest collections. II
- libraries of the suppressed monasterl:
'0 have been utilized in forming commune
10 libraries, of which there are 415. All l
~ braries are under the care of the m1nlste
of education. Indian libraries are hume
GUS dNO CQI0uy VdiudDlc OA dSOOoAo
u their connection with Oriental hteratur
he Among the British colonies
THE LIBRARIES OF MELBOURNE AND oTTAv
ge are noted as the chief; of the latter Il
al writer's say: "Though founded in 1915
of contained very few books till 1S49, whe
de the two libraries of Apper and lower Ca1
" ada were joined. After being destroyt
ne by FIRE the library was re-established
es. 1855. It now consists of 100000 volume
'ns and is open to the public except when pa
vi lament is sitting; books are let out. II
Is new library is a handsome octagonal apa1
'fe ment with beautiful carved work in Ca
D" ada whitewood" The number of publ
~ libraries
no IN THE UNITED STATES
en- is given as 3,s42 containing 1858, $50 W
on umes. The present figures, however, a
ese larger than these, there being in 1881
ne 917 libraries with 12,711,493 volumes.
US the town libraries the writer's justly S,
70 ''Of all the libraries in the United Stat
"a none have achieved a greater fame a.
.n,s none are more zealously and admiral
VIC WIG conducted than those which are support
Lev y. from the public funds of some of the gre
i" cities. Legislation on the subject OF ii
public libraries was almost sypcErone
i'm England and Ahlvrice.'
me-, A useful chapter on library managems