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The High Purposes of Literature: Robert McLellan and his work
Allan LeachMY INTEREST in Robert McLellan's work is a fairly recent one, dating as it does from shortly after my arrival in Scotland five years ago. Several pointers made me anxious to know…
Two Miners' Libraries in the '70s
John CrawfordTHE NOW DEFUNCT READING SOCIETIES of Leadhills and Wanlockhead made a valuable contribution to library history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the libraries they…
The Science and the Fiction
Gordon JohnsonIT WAS QUITE AN EVENT when the Americans brought off that tremendous gamble in 1969 and succeeded in landing two men on the moon and bringing them safely back. It was even more of…
Days of Industry: Anna Jameson 1794–1860
C.P. AgelastoIN THE DAYS BEFORE TYPEWRITERS, stenographers, and tape‐recorders, when every word of a book was written by hand, revised by hand, and eventually printed from the handwritten…
Some Early Whitehaven Printers
Daniel HayTHE ART OR PRINTING was first introduced into Cumberland in 1735 when Thomas Cotton came to Whitehaven at the invitation of Sir James Lowther. Whitehaven was at that time an…
In an Old Persian Library
A.E. DayFOR ALL THEIR RENOWNED ZEAL I doubt whether many research workers in modern times have equalled the courage and tenacity, the single‐minded purposefulness of Avicene, the noted…
The Dedication of John O'Hara
William ReadyTHE RELICS OF A WRITER, his manuscripts, typescripts and memorabilia, have no life of their own, but they give life: they generate and resurrect. Too often they are abused, their…
The East African School of Librarianship
Robert PlantTHE EAST AFRICAN SCHOOL of Librarianship was the brainchild of S. W. Hockey, at one time Libraries Organiser in East Africa for the British Council. In 1960 Hockey submitted a…
A Notable Scottish Bookman
Frances CollingwoodGRIT AND FORTITUDE have long been associated with the Scottish character, but it is doubtful if any Scotsman ever won through to success after such a grim struggle, as did Robert…