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    Feb. 15, 1S86 The Publishers 3 Circular ...

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    Feb. 15, 1s86 The Publishers 3 Circular ...

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    right library at Trinity College . Why should not Scotland be similarly favoured ?

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    existing privileged libraries . lowing We have op -Bb * - inion IHB . much s with p leasure which in we g iving have the been

    fol-BBBBB BBF B B BBB BBBF BBB B ^ B ^ V B ^ bI BbB B ^ B . V ^ B > . Bj ^ V V «^ BPI B ^ B > «> F B- Bf BFB ^ —— ™ " «* - ^ —— * - ¦ ~ favoured regarding the proposal of our Edinburgh correspondent : —

    The Eight Honourable Thomas Clark Lord Provost of Edinburgh , says : ' As a pub-XAw lisher JU VX myself - —~ i w -BJ / "b /«^ -fc - I *_ very ~ V- *— J much * - *» w » .- ^ b ¦ —w sy » - ^ mpathised - > - >« . t ^< ¦ » ¦ m '•*• - » -- » - ^ -- with ww a-. — ¦»_ - the — _»

    -v-Some letter years of your ago correspondent the question of in your a free last library number for . Edinburg negatived h by was a voted larg upon e , majority and unfortunatel In that y

    proposal was included very the idea of an arrangem . ent with with the t . ViA Advocates Arlvftpfitp « ' Libra T ^ ibrarv ry . In In the the meantime meantime 1 I

    do not think there is the least fear of the very of abundant the Advocates privileges ' Library which are to the given public by the , and curators especial every ly to sense literary of the men word , being a national withdrawn library , and . it is in

    Emeritus Professor J . S . Blackie writes : and * My already C 4 op JL inion provided is that Scotland with jkA half , - being a-dozen a small large libraries ¦ country iw ¦ ' ,

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    goo Besides , I am of opinion generally that local libraries as centres of intelligence in separate welldefined districts are | IV BBi V more FB BBFB B likely to be of practical

    ^ - * 4 b ™^ * ¦ M ^ -Jk "fc-T " * ¦ X »^ b * " bJ" ~ B , *¦ jBk "b ^ Wb "B— • — - — - ~ — — — / _ -L use to readers . ' Messrs OkJ Lb Wm ¥ » Blackwood Aii ^ & / vSons k ^ write i * : AVe f

    JLf JL . X '^ t'J . J . I-L . jyiii . x .. » v- » v * .. * - "C ^ ' - _ *» .- >^ - > - _ . * . - »_ - -w * shall regard * with satisfaction any movement intended to make the Advocates' Library as available

    to the Scottish public as are the library and reading room of the British Museum to literary workers in

    London . For our own part we have to acknowledge the \ j ± A \ J unrestr \ A . AA JL Vi * f J LJL i I V c > t V V ed > V >* fac « A ^ W \_ , i A l A- i ¦» ties *» * v ^ KJ w WW h A A ich X _ y ¦_ ¦_ the V A A X-f ^ F L _ " acult JUV ^ - * a -lJ y w af « wa f * or v - > -, ds -w- > -s ^

    us in malting use of its library , as well as the courtesy and attention we meet with from tho library

    staff . The same may be said of the admirably a

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1886, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021886/page/7/