Commonplaces

Abstract

IT WAS in the mid‐1970s when, having been in the habit for a year or so previously of commenting on public library authorities' annual reports in a partially analytical manner, I observed a decline in the arrival of the same in my post. A decline which has been maintained, I may add, and which has led me to the conclusion that, while it is OK on the sender's part if I remark how splendid has his service been, he would nevertheless be happier if the ammunition was withheld for me to observe that his annual loans cost x‐pence more each than those of such‐and‐such an authority!

Citation

Bingley, C., Fleming, E. and Lawson, S. (1980), "Commonplaces", New Library World, Vol. 81 No. 6, pp. 118-122. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038491