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FORTY YEARS ON
WITH this issue LIBRARY REVIEW completes forty years of publication. When the periodical first appeared in 1927 its founder and editor claimed that LIBRARY REVIEW had ‘a field and…
THE SCOTTISH RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT AFTER FORTY YEARS
Hugh MacDiarmidSYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH had a long and fully documented essay, ‘Trahison des Clercs or the Anti‐Scottish Lobby in Scottish Letters’, in Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. II, No…
STIMULI AND SANCTIONS: Some Notes on Father Ronald Knox
William ReadyTHE PARLOUR OF ROTA'S OLD BOOKSHOP, Bodley House, in Vigo Street just around the corner from the more commodious present location in Saville Row, London, is where Knox first began…
CONSUMER ADVICE IN THE LIBRARY: The case for the direct involvement of libraries in training adult readers to use their reading skills more effectively
Gordon WainwrightIT IS PERHAPS NOT TOO MUCH OF AN EXAGGERATION to say that most people now use a library as a source of information rather than as a source of entertainment or of cultural…
BAUDELAIRE'S CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE HORROR AND ECSTASY OF EXISTENCE
Muriel M. GreenTO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE the writings of Charles Baudelaire it is necessary to know something of his character, life and outlook, for they throw light on the beliefs he…
DYCHE'S DICTIONARY
A. Cecil HampshireIT WAS ON THE ‘SIXPENNY’ SHELF outside the bookseller's window, its handsome leather binding a reproach to the inferior boards of this tasteless age. The flyleaf proclaimed it to…