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Libraries I Have Known
FRANK SWINNERTONEvery lover of books, and every professional writer, owes a debt to libraries which he can never ex‐aggerate. Whether they lend, or must be visited, they supply the material for…
A Bookman's Browsings
W.C. BERWICK SAYERSAlmost every author is to some extent autobiographical in his writings, and if he be also a librarian, they are necessarily somewhat undramatic; indeed, were it not for books and…
The Plight of the Subject Bibliographer
A.J. WALFORDThe compiler of a subject bibliography may, like Dr. Johnson's lexicographer, be no more than a harmless drudge, but his problems —if he is conscientious—are real enough, and they…
Bibliographical Name Dropping
HARRY C. BAUERBy filching a few words once used by Thackeray in another connection, a bibliographic name dropper may be neatly defined as a novelist who embellishes his romance with “a personal…
Edward Edwards Reconsidered: (2) The Librarian and Author
W.A. MUNFORDFrom whichever point of view we consider it, Edwards's Memoirs of Libraries is a remarkable work. Its two volumes provide a total of two thousand pages of text It is at once a…