The Passing of the Private Library

Abstract

“TELL me a man's friends and I will tell you what manner of man he is,” a well‐known philosopher has said. Years ago, even so late as the Victorian age, one might have paraphrased this saying into “Tell me a man's books, and I will tell you the manner of man that he is.” But now?

Citation

HOLLAND, C. (1929), "The Passing of the Private Library", Library Review, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 216-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011905