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Fleet Street
GEORGE BLAKEIT is not much of a street to look at—just the average narrow, crowded London street. But for the signs of the world's newspapers sticking out from its façades you could not…
Revolt Against Whitewash
STANLEY SNAITHENGLISH literature has never been notably rich in biography. We have Boswell. We have Lockhart. We have the vigorous, piquant Aubrey, the gentle Walton, who turned a life into an…
Time‐Spirit in German Literature
ARNOLD ZWEIGDURING the period previous to the war the German stage took its inspiration from the contemporary dramatists; the theatre and literary production were almost one. Authors like…
Books and the Walker
GEORGE PRATT INSHTHERE are days—and even seasons—when to the enthusiastic walker his favourite books make but a slight appeal. Indeed on such occasions you need not be surprised if you find him…
The Future of Public Libraries
LIONEL R. McCOLVINTO‐DAY, when so much is astir in the library world, it is desirable that we should try to envisage the future possibilities of public librarianship. For if we have not a fairly…
Notes and News
Our South African correspondent writes:—Considerable damage has been done to the University Library of the Witwatersrand as the result of an extensive fire which destroyed a large…
LITERARY NOTES
“The Du Barry” by Karl von Schumacher (Harrap) is a lively record, translated by Dorothy M. Richardson, of the life of this rather captivating but unfortunate adventuress.