The following is a list of the principal Libraries of the world

Library.

City.

No. of Vols.

Bibliotheque nationale

Paris..............

2,602,000

British Museum.

London.

2,003,000

Imper. publicnaja biblioteka

St. Petersburg

1,329,000

Konigliche bibliothek.

Berlin.

1,200,000

Library of Congress

Washington

1,000,000

Kon. Hof- u. Staatsbibliothek

Munich.

1,000,000

K. u. k. Hofbibliothek,

Vienna

900,000

Universitats- u. landesbibliothek

Strasburg.

814,000

Public Library

Boston.

812,260

Publicnyj i Rumjancovskij musej.

Moscow

800,000

Public Library - Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundation..

New York City.

787,700

Biblioteca nacional.

Madrid.

600,000

Bodleian Library.

Oxford.

600,000

K. k. Universitats-bibliothek

Vienna

596,526

Harvard University Library.

Cambridge (U. S.)

575,889

Cambridge University Library

Cambridge (Eng.)

550,000

Det store kongelige bibliothek

Copenhagen

550,000

Universitats-bibliothek

Gottingen

506,814

Universiteit bibliotheek

Amsterdam.

500,000

Kon. bibliotheek.

The Hague.

500,000

The Rapid Extension In The Gathering Of News

In 1886 the New York World reported the battle of Majuba Hill in six lines, but so rapid was the extension of news gathering that, fourteen years later, events in the same quarter of the globe were reported to the great American dailies by cable as fully as though close at hand. The destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique, in 1902, by an eruption of Mont Pelee, may be mentioned as an illustration of this tendency.

The cablegrams which detailed that great disaster reached American newspapers by way of Brazil, the Azores and Great Britain, costing the recipients from $2 to $4 per word, with fees for precedence.