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THERE is a wide difference in function between the old “literary and philosophical” libraries, such as are now dying out in various parts of the country, and the “free public”libraries which are steadily, though remarkably slowly, on the increase in England—libraries which lay before readers of all classes Mr. Herbert Spencer's denunciations of what an evil sign of the times their organisation for the diffusion of knowledge is, compared with Lord Brougham's old Society for the same purpose.
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ODELL, W. Library Catalogues 1 . Nature 30, 636–637 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030636a0
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