Library Review

Hutton, Muriel

1972 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012564

ONE MUST BEGIN with Dickens. A chapter by Christopher Hibbert in Charles Dickens, 18121870 centenary volume, edited by E. W. F. Tomlin, and The London of Charles Dickens, published by London Transport with aid from the Dickens Fellowship, make a similar study here superfluous both are illustrated, the latter giving instructions for reaching surviving Dickensian buildings. Neither warns the reader of Dickens's conscious and unconscious imaginative distortion, considered in Humphrey House's The Dickens World. Dickens himself imagined Captain Cuttle hiding in Switzerland and Paul Dombey's wild waves saying Paris the association between the writing and the place of writing is so curiously strong in my mind. Author and character may be in two places at once. I could not listen at my fireside, for five minutes to the outer noises, but it was borne into my ears that I was dead. Our Mutual Friend

Holehouse, Katharine

1972 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012565

IT IS STRANGE how a sentence read in childhood can persist in the memory, by reason of some sentiment or overtone of glamour. One would expect the after weight of more solid literature to crush it from existence, but bright is the ring of words to the child new to their power, and the reverberation may last a lifetime. My father confessed he could not read a simple tale of his early childhood without a lump in his throat at the remembered crisis, when the little boy, saved by his dog, cries, Caesar, my dear Caesar, if it had not been for you I should this day have been eaten up by wolves But I throw no stones, remembering the end of The Cuckoo Clock.

Dove, Jack

1972 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012566

IN THE PERIOD 1925 to 1927, at the request of Viscountess Wolseley, the Corporation of Hove erected and equipped at Hove Central Library at a cost of 1100 a room known as Viscountess Wolseley's Room. This room, established and endowed by Viscountess Wolseley, was dedicated to the study of agriculture and horticulture. It was built on the site of a former roof garden semicircular in design, it was intended to be the repository of books, prints, documents and other objects which would form sources of local history. The official opening was on 31 July 1928, and to mark the opening Viscountess Wolseley arranged a series of exhibitions to display aspects of social life in Sussex in bygone days.

Campion, Sarah

1972 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012567

MASSEYVILLE, ONT., heads the list of those places in the late British Empire where I hope never to return. The city bears out R. T. Glover's verdict on another part of Canada One could live there for the sake of a dear onebut it would certainly temper bereavement. However, it is to Masseyville that I do return, in 1943, fate and necessity together having called my bluff of Will Go Anywhere, Do Anything'.