Author: Luther Farnham

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781528581905

Excerpt from A Glance at Private Libraries America has produced a few authors worthy the name but it has been in spite of the want of books in this country, and not through their abundance. Our great authors have found the material of their works in the vast libraries of Europe, or else they have imported it for them selves at a very heavy expense. The late Presi dent Adams undertook to collect the authorities referred to by Gibbon ih-his History of Rome, not half of which. Were then, probably, to be found on this side of the waters The lecturer upon any historical subject, except that pertain ing to America, would be obliged to visit Europe to find ample materials - certainly if he was con fined to the public libraries of this country. Our nation is not to be reproached for its pau city of libraries There were many things that necessarily preceded large public collections of books. The land was to be cleared and cultivated. After bread came the church, the school-house, and the town-house, and such collections of books as might be expected in a new country of vast material resources, that began early to mature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.