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'Few of us perhaps fully comprehend the alarming rate at which books are increasing all around...[in the Public Library of New South Wales] Australian Literature has a special series of letters from MA to ML, and is honoured with a room of its own. The collection, which consists of some 16000 volumes, is certainly worth it, for it is probably the most complete of the kind in existence.'