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Fifty Years of Library Review
Tom KinninmontPERIODICAL LITERATURE is notoriously afflicted by a high infant mortality rate. Literary magazines in particular seem to exhibit all the survival instincts of a claustrophobic…
Librarians—Italian Style
Savina A. RoxasAFTER spending the necessary time in Italy required for the field research for my doctoral dissertation on library education in Italy, I realized how little is known today about…
In the Wake of James Joyce
John O'RiordanIT WOULD NOT BE beyond the powers of exaggeration to claim that James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. But it would be doubly difficult—difficult…
Macvey Napier (1776–1847): Literary Man of Parts
George H. BallantyneEDITOR, author, lecturer, lawyer, legal administrator, librarian: Napier was each of these. In the first capacity he was best known; in the last, least. Educated with a view to…
Bibliothecal Deltiology
A.E. DayBEFORE MISUNDERSTANDING OCCUR I should explain at once that this essay has nothing whatsoever to do with the latest esoteric theories of library management. It concerns the rather…
A. E. Housman's Shropshire
John OffordIN 1896 A. E. Housman was an erudite Professor of Latin at London University with a growing reputation both for his translations from the more obscure classical authors and for…