The morning times., 1896-09-20
BOOKS FOR THE PEOPLE.
Advantages. to Be Offered
Washington a Year.
HOPE FOR FREE LIBRARY
Library of Gengressin It's New
Quarters and It's Probable
Schemes of Arrangement.

of them is fully Of as much Interest to
residents here as the settlement OF the
financial question. A part OF the books for
one OF them, the free library, are al
ready doing good service in temporary
quarters at Vermont avenue,and II street
northwest. The attendance there is grow
ing rapidly, proving how great has been
the lack. 1t is expected that tens OF
aud satisfactory building will be pro
vided before the close OF the approach
ing winter The trustees have been named,
and it rests with them to give the city
what it has long needed and talked about
in this line. ..... ..-... ...
The books for the other aud the building
for 1t are already here. They only need
to be brought together and competent
force organized To handle them. But the
Library of Congress is no huge and un-
wieldy that this task is fairly Herculean.
The hands in which il lies have. how
ever. always proved equal to any einer-
gency. The best arrangement OF the books
in ii also presents a subject OF study and
will have careful consideration. The
change will be SO great that practically
new library will bcestablished. The added
advantages will he more important than
the actual creation Of an ordinary IL
brary.
HOW THE BIG LIBRARY is ARRANGE ED.
The library I'm its present quarters has an
arrangen ent OF Its own. lhe iie'u Vi
knowledge ~ DIVIDED into ior'!-ionI siaiiu
departm meDts. portioS OF the space Is
SET apart TOT each OF 'heSe- "' ''s'""'.
botaDy Is one OF these great se'tions'
Everything on thesnhJect oil b"tais III any
form is put IN tins division. a 'ook On 'he
habits OF air pants or d monograph upon
spirogyra and its Kin would lihd i's way
INTO tins coiiecuon' So "o"o tue 'ios'
general treatise upon iores'r! OF Eafueh
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everything ON weaving metal working. etc.
And under metal working, for instance. all
books that deal with iron VIII fan into
the same compartment, and lclow that
are other Subdivisions.
Theology fills big corner. The cTccds
are thrice more numerous than any man
would reckon al probable. Even those who
are vcrsed in church matters would be sur
prised 70 find how many schemes Of re-
:icicus belief have received tie sanction "f
considerable portion Of the human Tdce.
There are "A great many creeds that nave al
one time or another been adopted even
among English speaking peoples that
are never hel rd Of nowadays. some rfthcm
have stiil handful Of adherent> here AMI
there. some of them, - far aSCan hclcIrncf,
are totally extinct. though there may Ice
band of the faith holding together some
where. UsuallyI sect, whose Il umbcis have
been greatly reduced, point TO that fact
as proof that they have the true doCt TiDc
and cling To their pc, uliar iencts the more
strongly. 1t is curious to note TN what
trifiing differences new sect can be cs-
tabiished
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