Third Largest Library

uperial libráry of Russia, estaiblisheá by Peter tbe Great in 1714, is the third amons the world's great libraries. It contains about 1,200,000 volumes, and about 26,000 manuscripts. It attained a píace in the front rank of European Hl-raries by the acquisttioa of the celeated Zaluski collection; Count Zaluski had collected about 260,000 volumes and 10,000 MSS. On the suppression of the Jesuit order in Russia, the collection of the books in tneir poBsession was taken in charge by Prince Italinski, and, among other libraries, the prince transferred the Zaluski collect'on from the Jesuit college at Warsaw to St. Petersburg. The most important of the manuscripts in this library is the "Codex Sinaiticus" of theGreek Bible, brought from the convent of St. Catherine on Mount Siani by Prof. Tischendorf, in 1859.