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ways throu,2^1i its power to stimulate interest in books, thus increasinjjj 

 the general popularity of the library and enlarging its endowment. 



Many books, and valuable ones, would be required in the first kind 

 of nniseum work, but it is not intended to enter into competition with 

 the library. (When necessary, volumes could l)e duplicated.) It is 

 very often the case, however, that l)ooks are more useful and safer in the 

 museum than on the lil)rary shelves, for in the nuiseum they may be seen 

 daily by thousands, while in the library their very existence is forgotten 

 by all except their custodian. 



Audubon's Birds of North America is a book which everyone has 

 heard of and which everyone wants to see at least once in his lifetime. 

 In a library, it lU'obably is not examined by ten persons in a year; in a 

 museum, the volumes exposed to view in a glass case, a few of the most 

 striking plates attractively framed and hung upon the wall near at haud, 

 it teaches a lesson to every passer-by. 



The library ma}' be called upon for aid b}'' the nuiseum in many direc- 

 tions. Pictures are often better than specimens to illustrate certain ideas. 

 The races of man and their distribution can only be shown by pictures 

 and maps. Atlases of ethnological portraits and maps are out of place in 

 a library if there is a nuiseum near by in which they can be displayed. 

 They are not even members of the class described b}- L,amb as "books 

 which are not l)ooks. " The}' are not books, but nuiseum specimens mas- 

 querading in the dress of books. 



There is another kind of depository which, though in external features 

 .so similar to the museum, and often confused with it in name as well as 

 ill thought, is really very unlike it. This is the art gallery. The scien- 

 tific tendencies of modern thought have permeated every department of 

 human activity, even influencing the artist. Many art galleries are now 

 called miLseums, and the assumption of the name usually tends toward 

 the adoption in some degree of a scientific method of installation. The 

 difference between a museum and a gallery is soleh' one of method of 

 management. The Musce des Thermes — the Cluny Museum — in Paris 

 is, notwithstanding its name, simply a gallery of curious objects. Its 

 contents are arranged primarily with reference to their effect. The old 

 monastery in which they are placed affords a magnificent example of 

 the interior decorative art of the Middle Ages. 



The Cluny Museum is a most fascinating and instructive place. I 

 would not have it otherwise than it is, but it will alwa}-s be unique, the 

 sf>le representative of its kind. The features which render it attractive 

 V'ould be ruinous to any museum. It is, more than any other that I 

 know, a collection arranged from the standpoint of the artist. The same 

 material, in the hands of a Klenim or a Pitt-Rivers, arranged to show 

 the history of human thought, would, however, be much more interest- 

 ing, and, if the work were judiciously done, would lose none of its 

 aesthetic allurements. 



