BOOKS BY THE MILLION.
More than a million different textbooks have been written and printed by the white race, alone, according to the estimate of Dr. John D. Wolcott, librarian of the United States Bureau of Education. This estimate does not include reprints or revisions of the same text-book, some of which, such as tho old Webster spelling book, ran into hundred* of editions. There is no way even to estimate the number of manuscript text-booke used by tho ancients and peoples of the East. Dr. Wolcott has just established a special text-book library, in addition to tho bureau's regular pedagogical library- Here aro gathered some 6000 volumes, most of them gifts.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 13
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112BOOKS BY THE MILLION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 13
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