14,000
Clarke Public Library, Coldwater, Mich., 14,000
Harris Institute Library, Woonsocket, R. I., 14,000
Merrick Public Library, Brookfield, Mass., 14,000
Robbins Library, Arlington, Mass., 14,000
Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, Mass., 14,000
Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Mass., 13,000
Birchard Library, Fremont, Ohio, 12,500
James Prendergast Library, Jamestown, N. Y., 12,500
Rogers Free Library, Bristol, R. I., 12,300
Abbott Public Library, Marblehead, Mass., 12,000
Armour Institute, Chicago, Ill., 12,000
Beebe Town Library, Wakefield, Mass., 12,000
Carnegie Free Library, Braddock, Pa., 12,000
Goodnow Library, South Sudbury, Mass., 12,000
Millicent Library, Fairhaven, Mass., 12,000
Thayer Public Library, South Braintree, Mass., 11,000
Dyer Library, Saco, Maine, 10,500
Cossit Library, Memphis, Tenn., 10,000
Gloucester (Mass.) Sawyer Free Library, 10,000
Ferguson Library, Stamford, Conn., 10,000
Parlin Memorial Library, Everett, Mass., 10,000
Jennie D. Haynes Library, Alton, Ill., 10,000
Hornell Free Library, Hornellsville, N. Y., 10,000

Besides the preceding list, purposely confined to free libraries chiefly
founded by individuals, which have reached the ten thousand volume mark,
there are a multitude of others, too numerous to be named, having a less
number of volumes. In fact, the public spirit which gives freely of
private wealth to enlarge the intelligence of the community may be said
to grow by emulation. Many men who have made fortunes have endowed their
native places with libraries. It is yearly becoming more and more widely
recognized that a man can build no monument to himself so honorable or so
lasting as a free public library. Its influence is well nigh universal,
and its benefits are perennial.

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We now come to consider the city or town libraries, created or maintained