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The Pen and the Sword
GEORGE BLAKE“THE great book about the war has still to be written,” say those in whom the passion for classification takes the place of the capacity to think clearly. As if the whole truth…
Frank Pacy
W.C. BERWICK SAYERSA FEW weeks ago Frank Pacy, on receiving an arm‐chair as a farewell gift, said he would take it home, sit in it, and write a book, “Fifty Years as a Librarian.” So I am told; but…
The British Museum Library
ARUNDELL ESDAILEFROM libraries of three thousand or thirty thousand books it is perhaps an effort to imagine one of over three millions. Librarians of great institutions have something better to…
The American Book Clubs
FREDERIC MELCHERTHE publishing and distribution of books in the United States has seen many changes in the last decade and seems now to be entering into a period of uncommon activity. During the…
Prison Libraries
MURIEL KENTIT is hardly an exaggeration to say that the general public knows nothing about reading in prison—and very little of the conditions of life to‐day in, let us say, Wormwood Scrubs…
Reading at the Local Centre
MRS. READ‐ANDREWSTILL I took on the work of a local librarian under the Essex County Library I think I had never felt what a reality the phrase, “Republic of Letters,” stands for. I had vaguely…