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Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
James B. CairdEVEN TO THOSE who profess to have made a study of Scottish literature, Sharpe's name is comparatively unknown. He is often thought of as an obscure antiquarian friend of Scott's…
Sir Winston's Library
A.E. Day‘Nothing’, Winston Churchill assured the readers of Nash's Pall Mall Magazine in 1925, ‘makes a man more reverent than a library’, and to prove his point, imagined a day spent…
The Castaways and the Mariner
Neville BraybrookeIN THE WILLIAM GOLDING CANON, his first novel Lord of the Flies (1954) remains his most famous, and his third Pincher Martin (1956), his most controversial. Both are concerned…
Robert Fergusson's Scots Poetry
Hugh K. MackayTHAT DR T. C. SMOUT in his highly praised A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (1969) felt able to dismiss Robert Fergusson (‘the dissipated son of an Edinburgh clerk’…
History in the Library of Salisbury Cathedral
John UdalON MONDAY the fifteenth of June 1215 the profligate King John came down from Windsor Castle to Runnymede to keep an important appointment with the Barons of the Realm encamped at…
Library Publications
When this work was completed, sixteen years ago, interest in library history was much smaller than it is today. Even so, by virtue of its theme and its scholarship, Dr Aitken's…
Notes and News
W.R. AitkenA recent survey on book purchases was published by Sales Research Service Limited and reveals some very interesting statistics.