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Righter than Right: A Scot on Libraries in the Days of Louis Napoleon
Graham JonesTHE NEW REFORMATION SOCIETY, founded apparently at the end of 1860, finds no place in Greenwood's Free Public Libraries (1886), and from its title appears to deserve no such…
A Department of Dead Ends
Daniel HayTHE WHITEHAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY, in common with most municipal public libraries, has built up over the years a fairly comprehensive collection of books and pamphlets on the history…
Which Report?: A Review of Public Library Annual Reports, 1971–2
Allan WhatleyTo come across references to my earlier reviews in some of the annual reports for 1971–2 is sufficient indication that these articles are noticed by colleagues and encourages me…
Theodor Fontane and the Daughters of Albion
John A.S. PhillipsONCE when Theodor Fontane, the celebrated nineteenth‐century German poet, was invited by his friend Wilhelm Wolfsohn to write an article about English women, the poet replied that…
Bradbury and Asimov: A Contrast
Gordon JohnsonBOTH BRADBURY AND ASIMOV write science fiction. That statement is like saying that both the Financial Times and the News of the World are newspapers; they are worlds apart…