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Reminiscenses
HENRY D. ROBERTSAT the end of October, 1935, I retired from active service, after more than fifty years spent in library administration. And now my friend, the editor of this journal, asks me to…
Library Economy Writers: Genesis
W.C. BERWICK SAYERSYOU recall Dr. Johnson's definition of a lexicographer. Might it not also apply to the writer of text‐books ? “A harmless drudge” if not exactly a tonic description of a man would…
Books and Youth: Intermediate Libraries Reviewed
MURIEL STEELTHERE comes a time when the youth looks either like a man in boy's dress or like a boy in man's dress. Girls at this stage are unkindly, though accurately, termed gawky. Dress is…
David Laing: Librarian and Bookman
JOHN L. WEIRI SUSPECT that we praisers of past times, we who walk in spirit with the mighty bookmen of bygone days, are now somewhat in the minority. That being so, it was a heightened…
Old English Farming Books
G.E. FUSSELLHOW old is old? If it were not that there were, at least for practical purposes, no English farming books before the age of printing, that question would intrigue me vastly…