...ephemeral handbills, broadsides, ballads, and other forgotten " rubbish " of the centuries that are gone. While the files of the journals of any period furnish...commonly survive in a provokingly fragmentary state. The obvious causes of the rapid disappearance of periodical literature are its great volume, necessarily...

...preserved and handed down to the future, will be found to form precious memorials of a bygone age. While the files of the journals of any period furnish...commonly survive in a provokingly fragmentary state. The obvious causes of the rapid disappearance of periodical literature are its gréait volume, necessarily...

...preserved and handed down to tho future, will be found to form precious memorials of a bygone age. ' While the files of the journals of any period furnish...even those which are preserved commonly survive in a provokiugly fragmentary state. The obvious causes of the rapid disappearance of periodical literature...

...small, which relates to the local history or interests of the place where the library is maintained. While the files of the journals of any period furnish...even those which are preserved, commonly survive in a lamentably fragmentary state. The obvious causes of the rapid disappearance of periodical literature,...

...of the newspapers of the earlier days of the State. AR Spofford, late librarian of Congress, says: "While the files of the journals of any period furnish,...commonly survive in a provokingly fragmentary state." He mentions various reasons why this is the fact and adds, "so much the more important is it that the...