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A Tidy Collection of Filial Biographies
Harry C. BauerIF SONS DID NOT EXTOL, many a worthy father would sink into oblivion and forever go unsung. As filial biographers, however, sons customarily meet with intimidating scorn and…
Robin Jenkins: A Novelist of Scotland
Moira Burgess‘IT MIGHT BE SUGGESTED’, wrote George Blake in 1956, introducing the BBC radio‐drama series Annals of Scotland, ‘that Robin Jenkins is potentially the most interesting of the…
Conservation and the Poet
Barbara BrillFRANK FRASER DARLING, in his compelling Reith lectures ‘Wilderness and Plenty’ that heralded European Conservation Year, warned us of the dangers of pollution and over‐population…
New Light on Hardy's ‘Panthera’
M.E. BathIN 1909 THOMAS HARDY published in Time's Laughingstocks a poem called ‘Panthera’. It is not a poem which has attracted much attention, though unusual and interesting in many…
A Reader of ‘Little Pretty Pocket Books’
Dorothea M. AbbottIN The Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck there are some amusing recollections of her childhood, covering the years 1778 to 1793, when as Mary Anne Galton she lived with her…
The Bavarian State Library: An Essay in Kindness
John A.S. PhillipsTHE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE between the larger German and English libraries is that, whereas English libraries like the British Museum and the Bodleian are not lending libraries, the…
To My Mother, but for whom this article would not have been written
Tony JosephMANY LIBRARIANS collect books. I collect authors' dedications. I find this a fascinating pastime. Skim through any shelf of books that takes you fancy, and you will be surprised…