Show cooka in the brooks t thero is no knowing where tho library at oxford will leave off at present it is literally overflowing with tho literature if not tho learning of the age it has like the library of the british museum to bo supplied with a copy of every work published and naturally the strain put upon its limited resources has been too great for it A long time ago the library itself could hold no more books and the radcliffe camera was called into the service of the librarian that got full and then the basement of the Shel donian theater aras obtained this is also full now and the basement of the museum is now a homo for what would otherwise be homeless books at the present rate it is not improbable that the library will spread and spread until it completely overflows and swamps the whole university town it self that however is not likely to be just yet in spite of the activity of the lady novelist pearsons weekly |