New Library World: Volume 82 Issue 5
Table of contents
Editorial
IN ONE OF Malcolm Bradbury's early novels, Stepping westward, an American university lecturer ruminates on the arrival of a seedy English man as visiting writer in residence. For…
Comment
David Reid, Roman Iwaschkin, Robert StaffordshireMUMMY AND DADDY won a gold house point the other day for junior Reid, aged seven. Helping with homework must be as old as organised education, but aiding and abetting projects is…
Commonplaces
Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch, Edwin FlemingI WENT to a party, late in March, to celebrate the ‘launch’ of the 50‐volume Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980 by KG Saur Ltd, three volumes of which have…
Coming to Britain
Alan DayTHE British Tourist Authority, which entered its second decade of operations in 1980, traces its origins to the Come To Britain Movement inaugurated in 1926 by Sir Francis Towle…
Bells, books and candyfloss
Robert ShallowFOR ME there is only one serious drawback to the forthcoming marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana, and that is the prospect of our Poet Laureate flogging his dead muse to…