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Bookish America
ARTHUR E. BOSTWICKFROM the standpoint of an American librarian busy in acquiring, cataloguing and distributing books, his country is naturally very bookish indeed, though there are doubtless points…
The Child's Book and the Reviewer
LAURIE YORK ERSKINEIN a recent season Mr. A. A. Milne published an entirely enchanting book of verses entitled When We were Very Young. Later this was followed by other Milne books for and about…
The South African Library Position
PERCY FREERWHAT were the circumstances that prompted the Carnegie Corporation of New York to send to South Africa last year its President and Secretary; to make subsequently a liberal grant…
County Library Work in a Village
F.G. THOMASIT was in September, 1927, that the rural extension scheme of the South‐West was launched in Devon, financed by the Carnegie Trustees. The faith and persistence of a few gained…
Mediæval Encyclopedias
EDWIN E. WILLOUGHBYEVEN when in a dim monastic cloister he presided over his twenty treasured volumes, the librarian had his vade mecum, his refuge and strength in time of trouble. When asked an…