Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON LIBRARY YOUR dictionary will tell you th t library comes from atie french a booksellers shop from a bookseller but this Is only the preamble to the story in the first and second centuries A D there was great stimulation in rome in the use of books and to meet the increasing demands the booksellers concely d of a method of speedier pro than had been possible with the old bisted of scribes cop ing one at a time the enterprising dealers assembled a score or two of scribes most of whom were well educated slaves and had them all write at once at the dictation of one reader so doz is of copies could bo made in the time that bad formerly produced but one the scribes who prepared the manu scripts were known as and since ia themselves did the copying which produced their wares the name wis applied also to the dealers in bloks it Is from his beginning that we have the word H arary its intermediate derivation beng from the french a booksellers shon copyright |