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WASHINGTON, D. C. have been Metastasio, Calzabigi, and braries, of which that of Cordova con- have been Metastasio, Calzabigi, and tained 250,000 volumes. In Britain and Italy libraries were also founded with great zeal, particularly in the former country, by Richard Aungerville; in the latter by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and others.

After the invention of the art of printing this was done more easily and at less expense. The principal libraries of modern times are the national library at Paris, with nearly 2,300,000 books and 10,000 MSS., and the British Museum library, London, with over 1,500,000 books and 100,000 MSS. The central court library at Munich, the imperial library at St. Petersburg, and the royal library at Berlin have each over 1,000,- 000 volumes and thousands of MSS.

Other large and valuable libraries are the imperial library at Vienna; the royal libraries at Stuttgart, Dresden, and Other large and valuable libraries are the imperial library at Vienna; the royal Genoa, Prague, Göttingen, Upsala, Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin; also the libraries of Moscow, Venice, Florence, Felix Romano in Italy; Quinault, Marthe poet Geibel (who wrote "Loreley" for Halévy, as well as Sardou, in France; the poet Geibel (who wrote "Loreley" for wrote the "Zauberflöte," etc., for Mowrote the "Zauberflöte," etc., for Mozart) in Germany; and Gay, Alfred Bunn, Edward Fitzball, Theodore Hook, Planché, and Gilbert in England. Wag- ner stands alone, in that, after the "Flying Dutchman," he himself wrote the librettos of his great music-dramas.