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The number of volumes in a library is not always a criterion of its value to the student, but it is interesting to know the extent to which the colleges of the United States have accumulated libraries and their comparative sizes. We append a list showing the number of bound volumes in the libraries of the principal colleges of the United States:-
Harvard. 340,000 U. of Va. 40,000
Yale. 200,000 Vanderbilt. 15,000
Lehigh. 67,000 Swarthmore. 20,000
Hamilton. 25,000 Bowdoin. 48,000
U. S. Car' lina 30,000 Dickinson. 33,000
Boston Un. 5,700 Syracuse. 75,000
Brown. 66,000 Madison. 18,000
Colby. 21,000 Cornell. 150,000
U. of Verm't 36,000 Union. 36,000
U. of Calif. 38,000 Columbia. 90,000
Col. City. NY 25,000 Dartmouth. 68,500
Ohio Univ. 8,000 Tufts. 25,000
Williams. 25,500 Penn'vania. 21,500
Rutgers. 30,000 Allegheny. 12,500
Maryville. 10,000 Lafayette. 22,000
Roanoke. 16,000 Sewanee. 80,000
Wooster. 12,000 Wesleyan. 35,000
U N Car'lina 25,000 Oberlin. 18,800
Bates. 14,326 Hobart. 21,750
Bucknell. 10,600 Mt. Union. 5,000
Uof Toronto 30,000 Vassar. 16,000
U Nashville 15,000 Wellesley. 40,000
Princeton. 63,000 Rochester. 23,000
Adelbert. 22,800 U. of Tenn. 6,000
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