Library Review

BROWN, IVOR

1959 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012314

At the beginning of the century children were put to reading and writing rather earlier than they are now. So I remember that at the age of nine I was engaged with Stanley Weyman and listening to the swish of silks and clash of swords in A Gentleman of France and Under the Red Robe. I had already been immensely excited by the glint of diamonds in King Solomon's Mines. I can remember now the hour and the place in which I first encountered that piece of cake.

COLLISON, R.L.

1959 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012315

As early as 1864 The British Association heard a report from H. C. Sorby on the production of microscopical photographs of various kinds of iron and steel. In the Siege of Paris in 1871 photomicrographic messages were reaching the inhabitants by pigeon post. In 1886 I. H. Jennings supplied the needs of the growing body of amateurs in this field with his How to Photograph Microscopic Objects or, Lessons in Photomicrography for Beginners London, Piper and Carter, while Andrew Pringle's Practical Photomicrography London, Iliffe, 1893 demonstrated the advances that had been made in this fascinating subject before the end of the nineteenth century. Photomicrography has a long and detailed history.

GARDNER, FRANK M.

1959 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012316

For a matter of 20 years a Mr. C. S. Forester, betterknown, one understands, as a novelist, has been editing and publishing at intervals the memoirs of a British naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. For some reason known only to himself, Mr Forester has presented these memoirs as fiction, though it is possible that having in mind the known aversion of the public from any form of technical literature, he has thought that the memoirs, assuming as they do a working knowledge of seamanship and naval tactics, might appear more palatable and more commercially profitable in this form.

MACLEOD, R.D.

1959 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012317

Stanley Jast, who could be brash and also subtle in over and in understatement once said to the writer that librarians as a class were much too bashful. He observed that most of the town librarians who had crossed the library stage since public libraries began were quiet lads who had done their duty, taken their cash, and let the credit go. Only now and again had one stood out to catch the limelight of the stage, and quickly it would darken again. We leave this great thought to our readers.