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Show Before war started, Germany was planning a library large enough to hold 10,000,000 books. Although this B would have been the largest library in the world, it Is by no means cer--Lain that it would have been the mosU useful. Students and business men, IH too, find the New Tork Public LI-brary LI-brary much more generally helpful, IH than the British Museum Library, though the latter possesses three. times as many books. Comparatively few Londoners, says a contemporary, can spare the timp to visit Blooms- bury and sit vacantly for an hour' under the great domo .of the readng' room while the books required aro-being aro-being sought |