TY  - JOUR
AB  - FOUR o'clock! Two hours here, and only about twenty minutes' honest work done. That's the worst of public libraries, they're too entertaining. At ten minutes to two I left my comfortable room, with its demoralising furniture, and by two o'clock I had spread my books and papers over a considerable area of library table, and was feeling pretty efficient and ready to cope with the diplomatic eccentricities of Bismarck. At that moment the place was still almost empty, and, after noting that there was a new assistant librarian, and half‐heartedly making a few impertinent conjectures about her private life, I really settled down to work.
VL  - 7
IS  - 7
SN  - 0024-2535
DO  - 10.1108/eb012893
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012893
AU  - HAY LORNA
PY  - 1940
Y1  - 1940/01/01
TI  - Looking at Readers
T2  - Library Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 290
EP  - 292
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -