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Show MORE SHEuVES FOR BOOKS. British Museum la Adding to Its Many Miles of Bookcases. Although the British museum al-Iroady al-Iroady contains moro than throo mllos Ifrf bookcases another addition is about MHIk) mado to tho department of tpf &d books. Tho ifew building will le flvc-story wing 300. feet long, har-morlzlng har-morlzlng In architecture with tho Grecian Gre-cian style ot tho museum, and will bo situated on tho noth sldo of the present building. It Is ost'.mnted that tho cost will bo about $1 000 000, of which $26T),000 already Is in tho hands of tho trustees. Since tho complotion of tho permanent perma-nent buildings in 1547 tho trustees huvo beon obliged to cnlargo tho library li-brary spaco several Mmes to keop pace with tho constantly Increasing lltora-turo lltora-turo and tho needs of tho readers. Tho original library, numbering CO.000 volumes, which came as a part of tho bequest of Sir Hans Busk, tho Cholsca physician nnd antiquary, has now reached tho million mark. Last year alono 28,140 now volumes wero addod and 200,000 nowspapers and similar publications. |