HERE AND THERE.
The world's biggest book, an atlas, and the smallest are in the British Museum Library. The latter is half an inch square. The last letter to be written by John Wesley fetched £2lO at a recent London sale It was dated February 24, 1791, and' was addressed to William Wilberforce. Sailors prefer Conrad s novels, according to the president of the Ameiican Merchant Marine Library Association, which last year circulated more than 331,000 volumes among 1782 ships and lighthouses. Non-fiction books, including history, travel and poetry, were also popular. Oxford's famous library, the Bodleian, was founded by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598. It now possesses over a million volumes and 50,000 manuscripts. Although the library is entitled to a copy of every publication, they now bar, for lack of space, time-tables, sheet music, almanacs, diaries, fiction magazines, very juvenile books and temperance tracts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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146HERE AND THERE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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