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July 10, 1879 issue

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This article presents information regarding literary activities. The Third Library Convention has been the most successful of all. The weather was perfect, the attendance large, the papers interesting, and the social gatherings unceremonious and cordial. The fault of this, even more than of the London Conference, was that the papers were too many and too long, and that there was not enough discussion. An article entitled "The Flooding of the Sahara," in the July "Scribner's," lends currency to errors which are worth, perhaps, the pains necessary to expose them. The French engineers do not propose to flood the great desert with the waters of the Mediterranean, but simply the submersion of what is known as the region of the shotts.

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LITERATURE; CONGRESSES & conventions; LITERARY libraries; FALLIBILITY; ENGINEERS; ENGINEERING; FRANCE
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