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Librarian in Edinburgh
ERNEST A. SAVAGEEdinburgh has been so “well spoken of” by travellers that her citizens, lulled by the homage, have not always cared to enrich Nature's endowment of her, or even to follow her…
The Library Association Conference
Bookings for the Conference at Edinburgh from 4th to 8th June promise to be heavy, and librarians and other delegates who have not yet made their bookings for accommodation are…
Bookmen of the British Museum
ARUNDELL ESDAILEWhen, eleven years ago, I retired from the service of the Trustees of the British Museum, I was honoured by two or three invitations to write my memoirs. I declined, on two…
Looking Backwards: a Fantasy
FRANK M. GARDNERWe have just celebrated the bicentenary of the public library movement in this country. In preparing these notes on our achievement of the last hundred years, as a guide to the…
One Man's Beginnings
STANLEY SNAITHF A curious feature of our profession is the paucity of attention given to its human elements. We are too prone to lose sight of the fact that a library's place in the social…
When Poetry Paid
WILLIAM POWERWhen I was young, which was before the first world war, poetry was still the fashion. Even people not specially literary quoted “ballad songs and snatches”, and lines from the…