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Libraries in Bombed Centres: Some Reports
L.R., STANLEY SNAITHTHE destruction caused by aerial attack to a number of libraries in different parts of the country is not really news. Tens of thousands of people know the facts regarding their…
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Recollected in Tranquillity
EDWARD GREENI DO not know whether the love for reading is inherited, but both my parents were voracious readers and, besides possessing a good collection of their own books, borrowed freely…
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Readers' Progress
MURIEL KENTREADERS of The English Review, in the good days when literature took precedence of politics in its pages, may recall a fascinating account of Richard de Bury, author of Philobiblon…
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Beyond Recall
RHONA LAYMY house isn't so unsafe that I can't sit and read in the evenings with at least a feeling—perhaps not quite rational—of security. Every time I go into a London tube at night I…
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