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Johnson's Dictionary
ARUNDELL ESDAILEJust two hundred years ago, on April 15th, 1755, there was published, in two large folio volumes, one of the greatest of English books, A Dictionary of the English Language, by…
A Reviewer and his Bookish Prejudices
ALEC STURROCKPrejudices, of course, are just what a reviewer ought not to have, least of all the kind of reviewer I am. For I am a hack. The term is commonly used in a derogatory sense, though…
Reference Libraries I have used
E.A. SAVAGEOther than libraries I have held office in. Why draw on memories of libraries used (with one exception) long ago? To recall methods of service then found perfect; which, to me…
The Library Schools and a Historical Dilemma
J.C. HARRISONWhen the Library Association decided ten years ago that greatly extended facilities for full‐time training should form part of the programme of post‐war library development, few…
On “Autobiographies” by W. B. Yeats
LENNOX ROBINSONWhen Yeats wrote Reveries over Childhood and Youth in 1914 he dedicated the book to “those few people, mainly personal friends who have read all that I have written.”
An Answer to Lord Dunsany
FREDERICK WOODSI remember reading, some time ago, a short story by Lord Dunsany. It was about a rather improbable young man invited to hear the first performance of a setting of a modern poem…