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 then in some other part of the temple area. Now if this introduction were simply the arguing of a case one might almost drop the matter with this review. It can hardly be supposed that faced squarely with their own boiled down statements the Assyriologists themselves will stand for any of the propositions as to bigness, literary nature, various origin or separateness from schools. The matter is too obvious. The Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1912, for example, recognizes 10,329 public high school libraries having an average of only 600 volumes each. In many states the average high school library according to this is under 300 volumes. In the same report again statistics are given of 458 special school "libraries" of which 79 have 200 volumes or under and 29 have actually under 100 volumes. There are thousands of public libraries in the United States