Identifier: adolphsutro00holm (find matches)
Title: Adolph Sutro
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg, Mrs. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of San Francisco photo-engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ENTRANCE SUTRO HEIGHTS
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their admittance thereto, and their respect for theprivilege. But Mr. Sutro does not, in his lofty eyrie, on thecliffs crest, surrender himself to the exclusivedelights of entertainment. Much of his well-earned leisure has long beendevoted to the construction of a monument moreenduring than any possible triumph of marble orbronze, museum, tunnel, grove or garden. This is the Sutro Library, conceded by men ofthe highest scholarship to be one of the four greatlibraries of the United States. Three hundredthousand volumes have already been collected byagents stationed in the best Continental bookmarts, and additions are being constantly made. Among the rarest tomes and incunabula, may bementioned duplicates of the early printers art,from the famous Munich Library, four thousand innumber; folios of the classics from the monasteryof Boxheim and the Duke of Dahlberg, the Sun-derland Library and the confiscated monasteries ofBavaria. There are Mexican works, relating to the war ofindependence

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