I Write a Testimonial
Abstract
Concerning this business of testimonials: I daresay those of my readers (if I have any readers) who are chief librarians (if any of them are) will agree with me that it is fraught with difficulties. When, as a mere counter‐hand, and lamentably few in the pod, so to speak, I first summoned up the temerity to appeal to the Overlord for the usual formal bouquet, it never occurred to me that I was subjecting him to a grave ordeal. For how—short of outrage to his immortal soul—could he be expected to dilate upon me? My shortcomings were, as Professor Saintsbury said of Donne's, “gross, open and palpable.”
Citation
SNAITH, S. (1958), "I Write a Testimonial", Library Review, Vol. 16 No. 7, pp. 451-455. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012289
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1958, MCB UP Limited