IF, as Cicero says, a library be the soul of a house, a public library is the soul of a city. It has been usually assumed that free public libraries are a modern institution, and that our unscholarly forefathers were without such sources of enlightenm...
IF, as Cicero says, a library be the soul of a house, a public library is the soul of a city. It has been usually assumed that free public libraries are a modern institution, and that our unscholarly forefathers were without such sources of enlightenment. Possibly to a large extent they were so.