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American Librarian Essayists
W.C. BERWICK SAYERS“A LOG of wood with a book at one end and a real librarian at the other is a library,” was repeated to me some thirty years ago by Miss Mary Eileen Ahern. This somewhat enigmatic…
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Stories in Dialogue
ADRIAN BRUNELAS the state of the world grows more depressing, I find that my taste in literature becomes lighter. I have developed a nervous horror of being bored, as well as a feverish…
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The Curious in Books
GEORGE SCOTT‐MONCRIEFFTHE labours of research have one redemption apart altogether from their outcome. Years ago when I used to sit at the long radial desks in the Reading Room of the British Museum…
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Novelists and Nonsense
LEWIS SPENCEFICTION has never been “original.” It is not in its nature to be so. But as that fact became apparent at least some two hundred years ago it seems a trifle unnecessary to dwell…
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