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Show -. - j v .mij-. tva n. - MORE SHELVES FOR BOOKS. Brlilsh Museum Is Adding to Its Many Miles of Bookcases. Although tho British museum already al-ready contains more than threo mllos of bookcasos another addition Is about to be mado to tho dopartment of printed books. The new building will bo a flvo-story wing 300 feet long, har-morir.lng har-morir.lng In architecture with tho Grecian Gre-cian Rtylu of tho museum, and will bo Kltimtcd on tho north sldo of tho present building. It Is estimated that tho cost will bo about ?1,000,000, of which $250,000 already Is In tho hands of tho trustees. Slnco tho completion of tho permanent perma-nent buildings In IS 17 tho trustees havo been obliged to enlarge tho library li-brary space sovqral times to keep pace with tho constantly Increasing lltora-turo lltora-turo and. tho needs of Iho renders.. Tlio original library, numbering GO.OOO volumes, which came as a part of the bequest of Sir Hans Busk, tho Chelsea physician nnd nntlquary, has now reached tho million marl:. Iast year nlono 28,140 now volumes wero added nnd 200,000 newspapers nnd similar publications. |