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#002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 095
EXPOSITION STUDY CLASS REVIEW. 7
achievement is rather a drawback, unless the writer shall have first
gained his title to respect by some other means than devotion to litera-
ture."—Geo. Parsons Lathrop in New Review, 5: 244.
LIBRARIES.
According to the Britannica for 1890 there are in England nine
public libraries, not all of them circulating libraries, containing from one
to three hundred thousand volumes. The library of the British museum,
the finest in the world, contains 1,500,000 volumes. In Paris, at the
Nationale, the oldest of modern libraries, are 2,190,000 books.
In Germany there are forty-two libraries having over 100,000 books,
and at Munich is one containing over 1,000,000 volumes.
In the United States there are twelve libraries containing more than
100,000 volumes; they are at Albany, Boston, Cambridge, Cincinnati,
New York, Philadelphia, Princeton, Washington and Chicago. It is
said that there is no library building in the world that, for novel
mechanical devises, at all compares with the one in Washington, now
erected for the library of congress, which now contains 650,000 volumes,
but a new building is planned for the future and provision has been
made for the accommodation of 5,000,000 books. An intellectual diet
too exclusively of newspapers and novels threatens to emasculate the
national mind. "It is an open question whether the public libraries
have not so far greatly contributed to the spread of the more insidious
danger. Free libraries are essential to a community whose masses can
read; it is clear, however, that alone they are almost as capable of abuse
as the mere power of reading. Carlyle's idea that the library is the real
university is true only within narrow limits. The minds are rare that
take naturally to intellectual efforts. Most men even of great oppor-
tunities can trace their intellectual life to the touch of one or two minds
of maturity and keenness."—Froude.
ART GALLERIES.
"America has already advanced from indifference to fashion in
matters of art. It has become the mode to have a taste. Private galler-
ies in New York are becoming almost as common as private stables.
Thousands of dollars are almost as freely given now for a picture as
hundreds a short time ago. The result is that not only large sales of
foreign ones are frequent at prices that will be likely to flood us with
cheap paintings or falsifications of Europe, but our own artists to meet
the demand are tempted to sell even the sketches from their walls at
valuations which but recently they did not venture to affix to their
finished works.
The Historical Society of New York has arranged its collections on
the plan of the British and South Kensington Museums, free to the
public. Baltimore has a similar institution begun on the Peabody gift
of half a million, with the promise of as much more. Neither is Boston
behind ; its institute of Technology, carefully studied from the experi-
ence of Europe, is the most scientifically complete and comprehensive
Object Description
| Title | World's Columbian Exposition 002 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
Description
| Title | 0095 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
| Transcript | #002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 095 EXPOSITION STUDY CLASS REVIEW. 7 achievement is rather a drawback, unless the writer shall have first gained his title to respect by some other means than devotion to litera- ture."—Geo. Parsons Lathrop in New Review, 5: 244. LIBRARIES. According to the Britannica for 1890 there are in England nine public libraries, not all of them circulating libraries, containing from one to three hundred thousand volumes. The library of the British museum, the finest in the world, contains 1,500,000 volumes. In Paris, at the Nationale, the oldest of modern libraries, are 2,190,000 books. In Germany there are forty-two libraries having over 100,000 books, and at Munich is one containing over 1,000,000 volumes. In the United States there are twelve libraries containing more than 100,000 volumes; they are at Albany, Boston, Cambridge, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Princeton, Washington and Chicago. It is said that there is no library building in the world that, for novel mechanical devises, at all compares with the one in Washington, now erected for the library of congress, which now contains 650,000 volumes, but a new building is planned for the future and provision has been made for the accommodation of 5,000,000 books. An intellectual diet too exclusively of newspapers and novels threatens to emasculate the national mind. "It is an open question whether the public libraries have not so far greatly contributed to the spread of the more insidious danger. Free libraries are essential to a community whose masses can read; it is clear, however, that alone they are almost as capable of abuse as the mere power of reading. Carlyle's idea that the library is the real university is true only within narrow limits. The minds are rare that take naturally to intellectual efforts. Most men even of great oppor- tunities can trace their intellectual life to the touch of one or two minds of maturity and keenness."—Froude. ART GALLERIES. "America has already advanced from indifference to fashion in matters of art. It has become the mode to have a taste. Private galler- ies in New York are becoming almost as common as private stables. Thousands of dollars are almost as freely given now for a picture as hundreds a short time ago. The result is that not only large sales of foreign ones are frequent at prices that will be likely to flood us with cheap paintings or falsifications of Europe, but our own artists to meet the demand are tempted to sell even the sketches from their walls at valuations which but recently they did not venture to affix to their finished works. The Historical Society of New York has arranged its collections on the plan of the British and South Kensington Museums, free to the public. Baltimore has a similar institution begun on the Peabody gift of half a million, with the promise of as much more. Neither is Boston behind ; its institute of Technology, carefully studied from the experi- ence of Europe, is the most scientifically complete and comprehensive |
