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Gentle Journalism
COLM BROGANCOMPETITION among national newspapers has led to some very peculiar developments in British journalism, but there has been nothing quite so startling and, indeed, so dangerous, as…
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Librarian Essayists I Have Known
W.C. BERWICK SAYERSIF I say that I knew Edmund Gosse, I mean merely that I once persuaded him to address the Library Assistants' Association. Later we exchanged a few letters on poetry. He came, a…
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Young Poets Paraded
STANLEY SNAITHWHEN Mr. Auden writes: “Me, March, you do with your movements master and rock With wing‐whirl, whale‐wallow . . .”
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The Fiercest of Bibliomaniacs
H. PHIPPS HEMMINGJUST over a hundred years ago began what was truly described as the “slaughter” of the hoards of books collected by Richard Heber, whom Thomas Campbell called “the fiercest and…
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