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 or for gain he should create or allow the wrong impression and try to live up to it.

The word library is no exception to the rule that there may be several dictionary meanings for the same word and all used so as to mislead, in various shades of innocence and reprehensibility. In English, according to the concise Oxford dictionary, there are at least five or six right meanings for the word library — a building for books, a collection of books, a body of persons keeping books, a series, the works used by a certain author.

The London Library and the library of universal knowledge are different kinds of things and the "London Library" is a phrase misleading to those who think of a library as a free municipal library.

The phrase a "Carnegie library" is right by the dictionary but it is "mislead" millions who think of a library as having books. Mr. Carnegie has given hundreds of library buildings (and has thereby made