Someone looking through their relative’s belongings found “Famous Composers”. It was a book published (发行) in 1902. According to the St. Paul Public Library, it was last borrowed 17 years after it was published. “There’s been a time or two when something has come back, and maybe it has been checked out for 20 or 30 years, but nothing where it looks like it has been out for some 100 years,” John Larson, the library’s manager, told The Associated Press.
“Famous Composers” was written by Nathan Haskell Dole. It records the lives and works of famous composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. The book only spent a short time in the library and had been checked out many times leading up to the last time in 1919.
According to the Minnesota Public Radio, Larson found that the book was cataloged (编目) in 1914, just before a fire destroyed (毁坏) 160,000 books in the library in the Old Market Hall. Almost a third of the library’s books had already been borrowed during the fire. As a result, “Famous Composers” was one of the fortunate works to have survived.
What will happen to the book now? That’s unclear. Larson said the book is in terrible condition and that he doubts it will be available for circulation. But he believes the library will keep it. “It has reached a point where it’s not just an old book, it’s an artwork. It has a little bit of history to it,” he told the AP.
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