Excerpt from Columbia College Library: An Article Originally Publishes in the University, Quarterly, January, 1861, With Alterations and Additions

Its character is, for the most part, scholastic, almost strictly a College Library not a popular town Library for general circulation. Hence, it is deficient in modern and current works of entertainment, and necessarily must exclude some specialities absolutely essential to the attractiveness of a general Library.

The ideal of a College Library, in a large city - se metropolis like new-york, particularly - does not seem to include a vast number of volumes. Selectness.

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