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A Book Room
MORLEY ROBERTSTHERE are rooms with books in them, there are book‐rooms, and there are libraries. Every book‐lover will recognise these statements as solemnly true. It seems to me that the real…
The Reading Habit
LIONEL R. McCOLVINWHY do we read? A few days ago J might have been content with a straightforward answer. People read, I would have said, either because they wanted to or because they had to—in…
The Library of Congress
H.H.B. MEYERTHE Act of Congress approved by the President of the United States on April 24, 1800, providing for the removal of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the newly created…
The Historical Novel: Types and Definitions
JONATHAN NIELDAGAIN and again, of late, it has been made evident that there is, at the present time, no uniform way of defining the term “historical novel.” A very distinguished writer—known as…
Art and the Time‐Spirit
JOHN DRINKWATERTHE question is often being raised—why is it that there has been no outburst of art as a result of the period of stress through which Europe passed in the Great War? But this…
The Passing of the Private Library
CLIVE HOLLAND“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…