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Show VARIED JGATHEU1NGS. The International Congress of Bibliophiles Is Now in Important Seasiou at Antwerp. WHAT IS BEIKG CONSIDERED. Gymnastics in the Public Schools Odd Fellows' Celebration Annual 6. A. . Encampment, AynvEui', Aug. 8. Spcci:il. The International Congress of Bibliophiles, now in session here, will adjourn tomorrow to-morrow evening. Since it opened yesterday yes-terday morning its proceedings have been watched by the learned men of Europe, many of whom are delegates to tho conference. The date of the open- ing of the congress was selected so as to agree in time with the 370th anniversary anniver-sary of tho birthday of Christopher l'lantln, the famous printer and the founder of the Plantin-Morctus museum of modern Antwerp.. Tho work of the congress is being done in three sections, first for the pure bibliophiles, and second for the practical men. Tho first section discusses dis-cusses mostly technical matters, such as the size and binding of books, the arrangement of the contents, tho numbering num-bering of pages, tho illustrations and the type. This section also proposes to settle all questions on a basis of international inter-national agreement, nnd to take meas tires to elevate tho art of book binding to its old-time rank. Merely tho preliminaries pre-liminaries were discussed at the first session yesterday, when tho temporary organization was etlected- The second section today considered the transportation transpor-tation of books, and the book trade proper. The third section at tho afternoon session began the discussion of the quesliou, how may the great libraries of all nations na-tions bo enabled to secure copies of the vast number of books w hich are being published annually? This problem was suggested by tho German librarians who are put to their wits ends to keep account of tho huge over-production of all sorts of literature in their own country. This section adopted a resolution reso-lution recommending tho government of every civilized couutry to appoint a commission to secure for its libraries copies of all foreign works of value. |