15,000

------- INSTITUTE Printed Volumes 50,000

This last calculation I should think very incorrect. M. Petit Radel
concludes his statement by making the WHOLE NUMBER OF ACCESSIBLE
VOLUMES IN Paris amount to _One Million, one hundred and twenty-five
thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven_. In the several DEPARTMENTS
OF FRANCE, collectively, there is _more_ than that number. But see the
note ensuing.

[106] [Mons. Crapelet says, 60,000 volumes: but I have more faith in the
first, than in the second, computation: not because it comes from
myself, but because a pretty long experience, in the numbering of
books, has taught me to be very moderate in my numerical estimates. I
am about to tell the reader rather a curious anecdote connected with
this subject. He may, or he may not, be acquainted with the Public
Library at Cambridge; where, twenty-five years ago, they boasted of
having 90,000 volumes; and now, 120,000 volumes. In the year 1823, I
ventured to make, what I considered to be, rather a minute and
carefull calculation of the whole number: and in a sub note in the
_Library Companion_, p. 657, edit. 1824, stated my conviction of that
number's not exceeding 65,000 volumes, including MSS. In the following
year, a very careful estimate was made, by the Librarians, of the
whole number:--and the result was, that there were only.... 64,800
volumes!]

[107] Now, numbered with THE DEAD. Vide post.

[108] [The translation of the whole of the concluding part of this letter,
beginning from above, together with the few notes supplied, as seen in
M. Crapelet's publication, is the work of M. Barbier's nephew.]

[109] [For M. Barbier Junior's note, which, in M. Crapelet's publication,
is here subjoined, consult the end of the Letter.]

[110] See pages 65-7 ante.

[111] [This conclusion is questioned with acuteness and success by M.
Barbier's nephew. It seems rather that the MS. was finished in 781, to
commemorate the victories of Charlemagne over his Lombardic enemies in
774.]

[112] [This restoration, in the name of the City of Toulouse, was made in
the above year--on the occasion of the baptism of Bonaparte's son. But
it was not placed in the King's private library till 1814. BARBIER
Jun.]

[113] [Now complete in 8 volumes--at the cost of 80,000 francs!]

[114] [The latter was the