Library Review

1937 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012029

WITHIN the past two or three years there has been a considerable amount of interest manifested in the subject of better library provision in schools, and the movement has received the support of the Board of Education in England, and of the Scottish Education Department. It has been suggested to us that the general subject is one that should be discussed in this magazine, and the following symposium considers schemes of varying types. The introductory note by Lt.Col. Mitchell explains fully the official attitude, and tells of the excellent aid rendered to the movement by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. We should be glad to receive further contributions on the subject from readers interested, whether educationists or librarians.EDITOR.

BROGAN, COLM

1937 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012030

FEW people would deny that the most remarkable recent development in publishing is the Book Club. Not everybody would agree that the influence of such clubs on writing is potentially as great as their influence on the mechanics of selling, but that is the fact, and the clubs should be carefully watched by all who would like to see literature free. The clubs vary greatly in size and seriousness. Some are almost entirely comic. Others, like the Book Society, have an academic air and confer a quite important cachet, a kind of literary Monthly Medal. How is their standing justified The Left Book Club is actually a publishing concern, and the Right Book Club is run by a bookseller. Commerce and ideology are running in harness.

HUZZAR, BLACK

1937 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012031

MY job is to tell what happens in the offices of newspapers with fabulous circulations.

NIVEN, FREDERICK

1937 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012032

RECENTLY, visiting Honolulu, it all came back to my mind clearly. I had gone out to the famous Diamond Head for two reasons I wanted to have a good view of the China Clipper sailing over, on the last lap of her transPacific flight, from Hawaii to California and to see Diamond Head lighthouse for Stevenson's sake, as it was there that he made Loudon Dodd, in The Wrecker, meet a sailor from a manofwar who inadvertently gave him some information regarding the mystery of that story. For Stevenson's sake also I had gone to Waikiki, a changed Waikiki from his day. The banyantree in the shade of which he used to sit is surrounded by bungalows. A metal plate, commemorative of him and of his young friend the Princess Kaiulani has been placed on the tree by the Daughters of Hawaii.