Library Review

Lochhead, Marion

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012634

WHY ARE THEY neglected or forgotten, those minor sometimes nearly major novelists of the first two decades of this century They have far more than period interest some of the novels are, in fact, historical, with a theme shaped by historical events. The novelists were all sound craftswomen, scrupulous and professional, having three excellent, even essential talents that of telling a tale, that of creating character and presenting it in action and dialogue, and that of indicating background. They none of them wrote to order or in a set pattern to be repeated in the next novel.

Pearce, B.L.

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012635

SURVEY IN JULY 1971 Librarians and tutor librarians from technical colleges, colleges of education and of further education scattered throughout the country converged on Coombe Lodge to discuss the changes taking place within FE and their likely impact on the library service.

Kelly, Michael

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012636

CHINUA ACHEBE wrote once from the Nigerian situation that local reading was entirely for profit, exampassing, promotion, and never for pleasure. Almost the same comment is appropriate for Cameroon. I have dealings with students at primary and secondary and university levels, and with teachers and civil servants, religious, businessmen, military personnel. I give advice about courses of study and textbooks. I lend books and order books from England for interested parties. I have only once in five years found a Cameroonian reading for apparent relaxation or pleasure a provincial Divisional Officer, caught in his residence with a copy of Churchill's memoirs. Could that have been business reading The only other Cameroonian I know who regularly reads Churchill, and Macmillan, does so for political and stylistic reasons, which are for ultimate profit, overtly admitted, rather than for sheer interest and fun.

Stephenson, Brenda

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012637

PRINTERS have persecuted me without a cause is the error that occurs at Psalm 119, verse 161, in a few copies of the 1612 edition of the Authorized King James's Version of the Bible, in place of the correct reading, Princes have persecuted me without a cause.

Braybrooke, Neville

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012638

BOTH these passages are dated November 14th and were set down in the midst of a World War, the first in 1916, the second in 1942. They are not, however, the entries from one man's journal. W. N. P. Barbellion and Denton Welch were both twentyfive when they wrote them, and each was dying of an incurable disease.

Olden, Anthony

1976 Library Review

doi: 10.1108/eb012639

DUBLIN DID NOT LACK literary talent in 1924. When Francis Stuart, his wife Iseult, and Cecil Salkeld decided to bring out a new periodical devoted to the arts, they found little difficulty collecting material. W. B. Yeats and Joseph Campbell contributed poems, Liam O'Flaherty a short story. Lennox Robinsondramatist, director of the Abbey Theatre and secretary of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust's Irish officewas too busy to write anything specially, but offered a story written years previously in New York, The Madonna of Slieve Dun. The first issue of Tomorrow a New Irish Monthly price sixpence appeared in August. Within six months the Carnegie Trust's Irish Advisory Committee was suspended and Robinson, its secretary, dismissed.