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LIBRARY ECONOMY. 



LISZT, FRANZ. 



551; from 1850 to 1875, 2,240; in 1876 free 

 public libraries in some form had been estab- 

 lished in nearly twenty States, and 3.682 libra- 

 ries reported an aggregate of 12,276,964 vol- 

 umes, not including the libraries of common 

 and Sunday schools and church libraries, these 

 together containing in 1870 about 10,000,000 

 volumes. 



In the report of the Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion for 1884-'85 there will be published a list 

 of 5,338 public libraries, containing 300 vol- 

 umes and over, each; of these, 2,139 are of 

 1,000 vols. or over, but less than 5,000 vols. ; 

 440 are of 5,000 vols. or over, up to 10,000 vols. ; 

 355 are of 10,000 vols. or over, up to 50,000 

 vols. ; and 47 are of 50,000 vols. or over. We 

 give below, from the " Library Journal," a 

 schedule of these forty-seven libraries arranged 

 in order of size, beginning with the Library of 

 Congress of 565,134 volumes, and in addition 

 191,000 pamphlets. "While the figures for some 

 of these libraries might have been increased by 

 giving the exact number of volumes at the close 

 of 1886, we have preferred to retain the table 

 as it stands, in order to preserve the relative 

 position of the libraries in the list. These 

 forty-seven libraries aggregate 5,026,742 vol- 

 umes. 



From the statistical summary, for which we 

 are also indebted to the "Library Journal," it 

 will be seen that the entire list of 5,338 libra- 

 ries shows a total of 20,622,076 volumes, or one 

 volume for every two and one half persons of 

 pur entire population. The number of libraries 

 is one to every 9,396 persons. New Hampshire 

 leads off with a library for every 2,690 of popu- 

 lation, and rather more than one volume to each 

 person ; the national and departmental libraries 

 at Washington lift the District of Columbia to 

 the second place, with a library for every 2,691 

 persons, and more than seven volumes to each ; 

 Massachusetts comes next, with a library to 

 every 3,134 persons, and more than two vol- 

 umes to each; Connecticut and Rhode Island 

 follow, with a library to every 3,479 and 3,545 

 persons respectively ; then Washington Terri- 

 tory, Vermont, California, Maine, and Michi- 

 gan fall into line, with a library to every 4,173 

 to 4,829 persons ; .West Virginia, Texas, and 

 Arkansas close the list, with* one library to 

 every 32,550, 37,899, and 50,158 persons, re- 

 spectively, and one volume to every 17, 22, and 

 16 persons. The "Library Journal" for Jan- 

 uary and February, 1887, contains a tabulated 

 list of 2,981 public libraries of 1,000 volumes 

 and upward each, from advance sheets of the 

 ' fc Report of the Commissioner of Education," 

 with the addition of classification by size, and 

 the name of the librarian or reporting officer. 



The following table includes the libraries in 

 the United States, of 50,000 volumes and over, 

 arranged in the order of size : 



1 Library of Congress Washington, 1>. C. 565,184 



2 Public Library Boston. Muss 4o4.*37 



3 Harvard College Cambridge, Mass . 232,800 



4 Astor Library New York city . . . 223.2S4 



5 Mercantile Library Asso'n . - New York city . . . 210,431 



Philadelphia. Pa . . 152,000 



Boston, Mass 150261 



Philadelphia, Pa. . 15o uuo 

 Cincinnati, O. .. . 14<M,53 



Albany, N. Y 128,'S71 



New Haven, Conn. 125000 

 Washington, D. C. lL>r> ouo 

 119,570 



6 Mercantile Library Co 



7 Athenaeum 



8 Library Co. of Philadelphia 



9 Public Library 



10 State Library 



11 Yale College 



12 House of Kepres. Library.. . 



13 Public Library Chicago,' 111.' 



14 State Historical Society Madison, Wis . . . '. 116JEO 



15 8 utro Library San Francisco,Cal. HOOoo 



16 Brooklyn Library Brooklyn, N. Y... SIO.OOO 



17 Peabody Institute Baltimore, Md... . 



18 American Ant'n Society Worcester, Mass 



19 N. Y. Society Library - 



20 Surgeon-General's Library.. 



21 State Library 



22 N. Y. Historical Society 



23 Apprentices' Library. 



24 Columbia College 



25 Woodstock College 



26 Mercantile Library 



27 Free Public Library 



28 Dartmouth College 



29 College of New Jersey. . . 



80 Free Public Library 



81 Brown University 



32 State Library. 



New York city . . . 

 Washington, D. C. 



Annapolis, Md 



New York city ... 

 New York city . . . 

 New York city . . . 

 Woodstock. Md . . 



St. Louis, Mo 



San Francisco.Cal. 

 Hanover, N. H.... 

 Princeton, N. J... 

 Worcester, Mass. . 

 Providence, R. I.. 

 Sacramento. Cal.. 



88,000 

 80,1 o.i 

 80,000 



33 Lehigh University 8. Bethlehem, Pa. 



84 State Library , 



35 Public Library 



38 State Library 



37 Public Libr&ry 



38 Mercantile Library 



89 City Library Association . 



40 Cornell University 



Boston, Mass ..... 

 St. Louis, Mo ____ 

 Harrisburg. Pa.. . 

 Detroit, Mich ..... 

 San Francisco.Cal. 

 Springfield. Mass. 

 Ith 



aca, N. Y ..... 

 Columbus, O ..... 

 Buffalo, N. Y ..... 

 Washington, D. C. 

 NewBWord,Mass. 



75.000 

 T.-..OOO 

 69,687 



67,000 

 65.657 

 C.5.000 

 65.000 

 65,000 

 68.941 

 C.2.MH) 

 61,612 

 61,000 



eo'ooo 



60,000 

 59,653 

 55,000 

 55,000 

 54.840 

 53.560 

 53,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 50,1100 

 60,000 

 50.000 



41 Ohio State Library 



42 Buffalo Library 



43 Patent-Office Library 



44 Free Public Library 



45 Union Theological Seminary. New York city ... 



46 Young Men's Mer. Library. . Cincinnati, O 



47 American Phil. Society Philadelphia, Pa.. 



LISZT, FRANZ. A German musician, born in 

 Raiding, Hungary, Oct. 22, 1811 ; died July 

 31, 1886. His father was a Hungarian, his 

 mother an Austrian. For several years the 

 father had been an assistant in the administra- 

 tion of the celebrated Esterhazy estates, and 

 resided in Eisenstadt, where his skill in music 

 brought him into the society of the most emi- 

 nent musicians of the day. He made the ac- 

 quaintance of Cherubini, and also became the 

 friend of Hummel, whose style of music and 

 playing had begun to form a school of its own. 

 In 1810 he was appointed steward of Raiding, 

 and soon afterward removed thither. He mar- 

 ried an Austrian maid who is described as tall 

 and slender, with features regular, calm, and 

 peaceful, with dark eyes and black hair, which, 

 according to the custom of the time, she wore 

 braided over 'the temples. The husband and 

 wife were Catholic, and adhered with closest 

 devotion to the ceremonies of their church. 

 The mother was especially religious. At the 

 age of six years, Franz began his musical edu- 

 cation, and made astonishing progress. His 

 eyes read the notes as if in play, and the little 

 fingers formed and held the keys with rapidity, 

 sureness, and firmness, as if they had been for 

 long years in practice. He was possessed of 

 an extraordinarily quick and delicate ear, and 

 it was remarked that he could not only name 

 every note, but conld repeat every chord with- 

 out having seen the notes. His memory wr.s 

 prodigious, and his perseverance striking. 

 When he was not sitting at the piano, he was 

 scribbling notes, which he had learned to set- 

 down without any instruction. He wrote 



