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Show THE constitution of the United States has been published in New York in the Hebrew language, with explanatory notes in Hebrew. -- . y . The great Chinese cyclopedia, consisting- of 5,000 volumes, was published during the reign of Emperor Kan It is the largest cyclopedia in the w.Hd. Only 100 copies are completed. . Adolph Sutro, of California, has a collection of -200,000 rare books which he designs giving as a nucleus of a free reference library for San Francisco. Mesican bibliography is extensively represented in the collection. A Hebrew manuscript just sold in New York contains the Pentateuch written by Jews in China, where the race and its religion are believed to have disappeared. It is a roll 141 feet 5 inches long and 2 feet S inches wide. |
