New Library World: Volume 82 Issue 5

Editorial

IN ONE OF Malcolm Bradbury's early novels, Stepping westward, an American university lecturer ruminates on the arrival of a seedy English man as visiting writer in residence. For…

Comment

David Reid, Roman Iwaschkin, Robert Staffordshire

MUMMY AND DADDY won a gold house point the other day for junior Reid, aged seven. Helping with homework must be as old as organised education, but aiding and abetting projects is…

Commonplaces

Clive Bingley, Allan Bunch, Edwin Fleming

I WENT to a party, late in March, to celebrate the ‘launch’ of the 50‐volume Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980 by KG Saur Ltd, three volumes of which have…

Coming to Britain

Alan Day

THE British Tourist Authority, which entered its second decade of operations in 1980, traces its origins to the Come To Britain Movement inaugurated in 1926 by Sir Francis Towle…

Bells, books and candyfloss

Robert Shallow

FOR ME there is only one serious drawback to the forthcoming marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana, and that is the prospect of our Poet Laureate flogging his dead muse to…