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 Mount Carmel, New Jersey, in 1905) is not a library but a small literary archive!

A library is thus a book or a collection of books kept for use, and one kind of book kept for use is the original or official copy of a public document. Collections of these are archives, but they are none the less libraries, as would appear to all, if all the documents were made, as some are, in printed book form.

It may at least be confidently hoped that with this full explanation no one will object to the use of the word library in its "right" sense in this essay, if care is taken not to make "a Bible and New England Primer" library pose as the British Museum Library.