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The Other Library
Caroline E. WerkleyALL THE WHILE that the Carnegie Free Public Library brought culture and information and just plain entertainment to the residents of my home town, The Other Library there also…
Charles Lamb: A Kindred Spirit
Barbara BrillMY MAIDEN NAME was Lamb and this, I think, was the tenuous thread that first drew me towards Charles Lamb when I was in my teens. His letters and essays were compulsory reading at…
What ever happened to Book Titles?
David GunstonIT was Life's Little Pitfalls that started me investigating the art of the book title. When I announced mildly that this was the title of a book I had casually come across and was…
David Herbert: Victorian Editor of Smollett
George S. Rousseau, Roger A. HambridgeDAVID HERBERT (1830–99), classical tutor, journalist and aficionado of eighteenth‐century literature and history, was born on 15 April 1830 in Glasgow, at the home of his parents…
Visitors
Daniel HayTHE TELEPHONE rang and after the usual signs that the call was coming from a box somewhere I said, ‘Whitehaven 3504.’ The time was 9 p.m. and I had been half expecting a family…
Tolkien's Walk
Norman PowerA HUNDRED YEARS AGO members of a Birmingham family named Warner lived at no. 19 Beaufort Road, Edgbaston. (The firm ‘Currie & Warner’ is still flourishing in Birmingham's old…
MALIBU BEACH TO THE VALLEY OF ASHES: Last Year's Films: Yesteryear's Life Styles
OTHER FILMS, it is true, were more talked about in '74, notably The Exorcist and Last Tango, each arguably depicting a gadarene trend of our times. But The Sting, Gatsby, and The…