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Some American Librarians
LIONEL R. McCOLVINONE evening, while in Virginia, I dined in very select company—for I was the only guest present, excepting the Secretary of the American Library Association, who had not been a…
Aspects of Research: The Personal Element
JOHN L. WEIREVERYONE nowadays has some more or less intellectual pursuit dear to his heart. Dr. Watson tells us that Mr. Sherlock Holmes had investigated, purely for his own satisfaction, the…
The London Critics
J. MACNAIR REIDTO news‐editors, trained in the new technique of “splashing” information or events, a book has value according to its newsiness. But even the word “news” has limitations nowadays…
How to Write a Last Act
JAMES BRIDIEONE of the most remarkable men I ever met, I told young Mr. Cayley, was a chap called Berthold Viertel. One day we were discussing this very matter, and he said to me, Many people…
Catalogues and other Printed Aids: A Symposium by Municipal Librarians
IN our last number we published contributions on this subject by Miss R. E. Baker, Miss A. S. Cooke, Mr. E. J. Coombe, Mr. G. W. Ellison, and Captain Richard Wright, from which it…