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