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Revelation by Subscribers: John Bunyan among the Welsh
Paul KaufmanNO ONE WOULD BE SURPRISED by the assertion that John Bunyan made a deep impression among the devout Welsh for a century or more after his unique career. The standard evidence for…
How Books Get Written: Authors and their Foibles
David GunstonTHE WAY WRITERS WORK has always interested readers of their books. There is no doubt that in the various foibles of literary men there is something reflective of their approach to…
Another Appraisal of the Stripdex Catalogue
Wilfred J. PlumbeIN our Autumn 1967 issue we published an article, ‘The Stripdex Catalogue’, by Peter Stephen, deputy borough librarian of Middleton (LIBRARY REVIEW, vol. 21, no. 3, Autumn 1967…
‘Little Puddlecombe’
G. JeffersonHISTORY, so it is said, is told in the lives of the great; but the lives of the ‘mute inglorious Miltons’, if but only dimly recorded, are evocative of the ordinary, the…
Life is a Luminous Halo:: Virginia Woolf's Experiments in Technique
Muriel M. GreenVIRGINIA WOOLF'S FIRST TWO NOVELS (The Voyage Out and Night and Day) are fairly conventional in form, the characters revealing themselves by their conversation and action. Even…
Ille Terrarum …: Views of Lancashire and Yorkshire in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret McMannersI EDMUND BOGG must have been one of the most untiring of dales' walkers to judge from the titles of his books: Two Thousand Miles in Wharfedale, From Eden Vale to the Plain of…
Escape from the Public Library
Doreen LedgardONE OF THE NEWER FIELDS of librarianship is that of the hospital librarian. It is advancing rapidly. My special province was a psychiatric hospital, until I resigned for domestic…