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Libraries in Bombed Centres: Some Reports
L.R., STANLEY SNAITHTHE destruction caused by aerial attack to a number of libraries in different parts of the country is not really news. Tens of thousands of people know the facts regarding their…
Recollected in Tranquillity
EDWARD GREENI DO not know whether the love for reading is inherited, but both my parents were voracious readers and, besides possessing a good collection of their own books, borrowed freely…
Readers' Progress
MURIEL KENTREADERS of The English Review, in the good days when literature took precedence of politics in its pages, may recall a fascinating account of Richard de Bury, author of Philobiblon…
Beyond Recall
RHONA LAYMY house isn't so unsafe that I can't sit and read in the evenings with at least a feeling—perhaps not quite rational—of security. Every time I go into a London tube at night I…