A. PUBLIC—_general_: e.g. National, Free, Lending, Circulating, Village. B. PUBLIC—_special_: e.g. Learned, Theological, Branch, Local. C. INSTITUTIONAL—_general_: e.g. Proprietary, Subscription, University, College, Travelling. D. INSTITUTIONAL—_special_: e.g. Technical, Professional, Departmental, Museum, Children’s. E. PRIVATE—_general_: e.g. Aristocratic or dilettante, Scholarly, working Reference. F. PRIVATE—_special_: Libraries of Collectors of special kinds of books. [Sidenote: Size of Libraries.] It remains to indicate the place among libraries which the Bodleian Library, the Library of the University of Oxford, appears to occupy among the libraries of the world. In the absence of all proper standardization of statistics, _size_ (as estimated by the reputed number of volumes, not works) must be first regarded, and next _importance_, such as that due to manuscripts, _incunabula_ and the like. Mere size may not connote importance, for the million volumes claimed by Messrs. Foyle, of 121 Charing Cross Road, London, do not raise their twenty miles of shelving to the rank of a really great library. So too the large collections of printed books in the United States are as yet wanting in the special importance derived from the ancient and cardinal manuscripts which enrich some of the libraries of Europe. The following libraries of the Old World contain a million or more volumes, in the opinion of Dr. Fortescue, late Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum, expressed in 1912, and compared with numbers given in the last edition of _Minerva_ (1913), and with other sources of information. _Library._ _Printed volumes._ _MS. volumes._ British Museum, London 3,750,000 _Fort._ 60,000. National Library, Paris 3,500,000 _Fort._ 111,000 _Min._ 3,500,000 _Min._ 111,000 _Min._ Petrograd 1,880,000 _Fort._ 2,044,000 _Min._ 124,000 _Min._ Berlin 1,400,000 _Fort._ 1,450,000 _Min._ 30,000 _Min._ Munich 1,100,000 _Fort._ 1,100,000 _Min._ 50,000 _Min._ Vienna 1,000,000 _Fort._ 1,000,000 _Min._ 27,000 _Min._