possusion of а library of eighty tbousand

volumes—a library Во which по equal атопд

libraries is known to exist either in

Russia or in апу other country.

The library is kept in а large two-story log

building, nearly as large as the house

by Mr. Yudin and his family, and

the books ате packed closely in bookcases, laid

оп tables, and even оп the Roor. At the be•

ginning of his labors as а book-collector, Mr.

Yudin arranged his books systematically by

subject. Ав the number of books increased,

however, and threat.ened to fll rapidly the

new extension added to the original building,

Mr. Yudin found himself foreed to abandon

the systematic arrangement, and to place the

books оп the shelva according to size, with-

out апу regard to their contents—a plan

followed by surprisingly тапу libraries of

Europe. But even this economic system has

ипаЫе to provide room for all the ЬооКв

оп shelves, and large piles of them still lie оп

the Roor and веет to call for another addition

to the building.

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