But if we are to have cemeteries, they ought to receive as many bodies as possible. The condemned will live ordinarily in pitch darkness, yet so that when wanted, they may be called into the light. Asking myself how this can most effectively be done, I have arrived at the conclusion that nearly two-thirds, or say three-fifths, of the whole cubic contents of a properly constructed apartment[12] may be made a nearly solid mass of books: a vast economy which, so far as it is applied, would probably quadruple or quintuple the efficiency of our repositories as to contents, and prevent the population of Great Britain from being extruded some centuries hence into the surrounding waters by the exorbitant dimensions of their own libraries. --The End-- FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: In Der alte und der neue Glaube] [Footnote 2: xxi, 25.] [Footnote 3: First of all it seems to have referred to the red capital letters placed at the head of chapters or other divisions of works.] [Footnote 4: Cic. Pro Archia poeta, vii.] [Footnote 5: Essays Critical and Historical, ii. 228.] [Footnote 6: The Prayer Book recently issued by Mr. Frowde at the Clarendon Press weighs, bound in morocco, less than an once and a quarter. I see it stated that unbound it weighs three-quarters of an ounce. Pickering's Cattullus, Tibullus, and Propertius in leather binding, weighs an ounce and a quarter. His Dante weighs less than a number of the Times.] [Footnote 7: See Libraries and the Founders of Libraries, by B. Edwards, 1864, p. 5. Hallam, Lit. Europe.] [Footnote 8: Hor. Ep. II. i. 270; Persius, i. 48; Martial, iv. lxxxvii. 8.] [Footnote 9: Edwards.] [Footnote 10: Rouard, Notice sur la Bibliotheque d'Aix, p. 40. Quoted in Edwards, p. 34.] [Footnote 11: The Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, which I suppose still to be the first library in the world, in doing for me most graciously the honors of that noble establishment, informed me that they full-bound annually a few scores of volumes, while they half-bound about twelve hundred. For all the rest they had to be contented with a lower provision. And France raises the largest revenue in the world.]