The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-11-07
France and England Have the
Largest. While the United
States Ranks Third. Although
the People Of This Country Are
the Greatest Readers.

y
lnvr thcrr Il some sort " Il
brary, Il may h~ only q trav
cling library or aon,~ oth~r kind.
but the ta,i rcmaius that nearly every
one IN the unitrd Statrs has an op-
portunitr to rrvrurr almoat any prpu.
lar h,ck trSr or for q very smali pay
Mcnt
Not In every country arr the people
p, fortunate A. In the United Stxtca
Although they al, have h.,oks-and ia
two instances tcriknrrN havs greater
rcl'ccti"na than the library of rNn-
e,rss, which ccntaina Amcr,raS lare>
est number ~ hocka under one rocf--
In no "n~ country II know,rSie~ spread
IN this way ~ extsnaavsly - Il 10 In
the United StNte~
t1hrNs&ee are MT uaNderu tnatttu.
t,cns a. mRny recrle aeem to heli~ve>
Therc 10 ample rrof that the Anglo.
Saxon k,nes II England we're d,sro~,
81 h errrt theuA asA works wer
brought er,m ireland ~here srteuce
had t~ru cultivated uueh earlier than
In Gr>at Nrttatn.
Rnt the ,nvAsians AZ the Normana
stopped the spo>ad ~ uNrNrtea and
the nrst after the in~aa'on ~aa estah,
G>hsSi tn ost'nt. At Durham tnew
frinisy' ,>>,l~cr, In the thirteenth zen.
fury, Retire thst time hooks were
kept IN chcSta and not In nNNua ssy,e>i
libraries, AZ the end rf the sevcu.
tccnth century there were ouly elk
libraries ia Great Rr,sata.
ALLAN NAMsAVs ,oeA
The arst circulating library was
founded Ivy Allan Ramsay In iTsa ~
su,>e<ssui were his effort, that within
scVea years every town and larre vii.
her pnsses~s. library,
The 'sn>es, nhra,y Ia the world Il
the WN,'o,he>,as Na,tenase, In Paris
II was founded Ia the year ls6S by
E'',s aaha, who collected a,o tN>akS
and yMs them In the tower ~ the Old
l.Havre par.aG the haadr>, years
war these h,sk> were scattered, Ma,y
cf them tel Into the hands ~ the Eng
fish aaa were carried ~ l.,>m,i,,a Louis
NJ, tried ~ revive the library, ami
Neasy ~ gave 1t place III the t.l>
kss~ de Ciarnsnn, and sr,>a;atsI Ne
Thou IS the librarian Two " The
Msrau&as wee Susl.&ias<i during the
frcss,a revolution.
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