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Fifty Years in Fleet Street
HUGH MACGREGORWith the exception of general labouring, no profession, craft, trade, or occupation throws its gates so widely open to all and sundry, including rogues and “wise guys”, as Fleet…
Library Methods in the Home Counties
E.A. SAVAGEIn a review of a Report on the Public Library System of London in the Summer, 1956, number (p. 419), I sought a picture of the London and Home Counties service and the factual…
Reading and Remembering
DAVID GUNSTONThe ability to write books is only rarely accompanied by exceptional powers of remembering the written word, either one's own or that of other authors, nor is it always linked…
Memories of Henry R. Tedder
HORACE WYNDHAMHenry Richard Tedder was associated with the Athenaeum in an official capacity for nearly fifty years. He went there in 1874 with a glowing recommendation from Lord Acton, and at…
Public Library Charges
PHILIP M. WHITEMANIn LIBRARY REVIEW, Autumn, 1952, Mr. A. R. Hewitt considered the illegality of fines for overdue books. The present writer examines recent trends in respect of fines and other…