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Public library policy reviewed—I
Lionel R. McColvinPublic library services should be capable of giving to all people who want it everything that books and related materials can usefully contribute to their lives and which they…
Portrait of an England
Arundell EsdaileSome fourteen years ago Lord David Cecil published a penetra‐ting study of the greater English novelists of the mid‐nineteenth century. That was a period of our literature which…
The libraries' service from an author's point of view
Horace WyndhamIf the truth be admitted we all of us have occasional black spots on our careers. Mine include the authorship of a book or two. The publishers have certainly done their best to…
The death of the English novel
F.M. GardnerIt was said recently, apropos of a Library Association Conference, that the one thing that librarians never talk about when gathered together, is literature. I am not only going…
The library's cultural contacts
In our Winter number we published an article with the above title by Mr. Howarth, Chief Librarian, Folkestone, and we indicated that we would be pleased to publish the views of…
Books and Bookmen
IvanhoeSome years ago at the invitation of Mr. William Will and the late Dr. J. M. Bulloch the writer addressed the Caledonian Society of London on the subject of Scottish magazines. The…