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      Iilterary Intelligence 1322 Books And Ru...

      IilTERARY INTELLIGENCE 1322 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OP BOOKS 1323

      NOTES AND NEWS 1325 CONTINENTAL NOTES 1326

      PUBLISHING IN GERMANY 1327 NEWBERY HOUSE . 1328

      DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1328 LOUISA M . ALCOTT 1329

      A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION f .... 1330 CASSELL & CO ., LIMITED .. 1330

      A TRIBUTE TO M & S . BEECHER STOWE 1330 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADE 1330

      THE PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT RECORP 3 1331 ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION 1331

      A NOVELIST'S FAVOURITE BOOKS l 331 THE MAGAZINE EDITOR'S TROUBLE 1331 i _____ _^ . ^_^____ ^__ ———

      —————•——TRADE CHANGES * 1332 REVIEWS , & c . 1332

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN OCTOBER 1 & 15 . 1337

      BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM OCTOBER 1 TO 15 1340 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 1346

      NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 1348—1359 MISCELLANEOUS 1360 , 1371

      BUSINESS CARDS ' . . 1372 , 1373 BUSINESSES FOR SALE ; 1374

      ASSISTANTS WANTED 1374 WANT SITUATIONS 1374 ¦

      BOOKS FOR SALE 1375 I

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE „ 1375 '

      \ St. Dubts ' Tan's House, "E.G., October 15, 1889.

      \ St . Dubts ' tan ' s House , "E . G ., October 15 , 1889 .

      Rjlhe Library Association Was Only Forme...

      rJlHE Library Association was only formed ' ~ L twelve years ago , but during that period it has accomplished a really great work , both for

      the profession and the public . It was founded in October 1877 at the conclusion of the

      , Library Conference held at the London Institution in that year under the

      presidency of Mr . Winter Jones , formerly Principal Librarian of the British Museum . The avowed

      object of the Association , and the one which it has always steadily pursued , is to enlist the

      sympathy and co-operation of all persons engaged or interested in library work with the

      view of promoting the establishment of new libraries , as well as securing something like

      uniformit » n . i y in the « 1 administration 1 • j >• of _ . /? those J . T . already , in existence . The Association has

      already done much to encourage bibliographical research ; it has recently instituted

      examinations for library assistants , and grants certificates of efficiency to those who satisfy its

      requirements , and in other directions it has brought about a marked improvement alike in

      the status and prospects of a most honourable profession . Besides all this , it has visited

      JL , j j dom rlrvfrn many of and n . n the cl this f / hisi chief has ha . cities a led Iftd of not not the mere merelv United ly to to King the the

      -, awakening of local interest in the movement , but in the formation of important provincial Jk

      UL . centres of activity . The Association , we need scarcely add , has published a variety of

      interesting papers—bearing directly on the work of its members—and in The Library it has also *

      established a strong and able official magazine . The meetings which have just been held

      ( at Gray's Inn , under the presidency of Chancellor Christie , have been in every sense of

      I ^ distinguished the word a success and experienced , and som librarians e of the , most both

      of England and America , have taken part

      in the discussions . Mr . Chancellor Christie was perhaps a little too hard on the sleepy

      custodians of books in the past when he said tliat the ' librarian of the old school

      was one who neither read himself nor wished others to read , and never dreamt of being of

      any further use to the reader than to hand him the book which he wanted . ' Although it

      is true that a new race of librarians has arisen since the passing of the Act of 1850 , in response

      to the needs of a new and ever-widening generation of readers , it is scarcely fair to

      describe a vanished official , who , at all events , was abreast of the requirements of his day , as

      a sort of dog in the manger . In America the Public Library has already * received formal

      mr W recognition as the People ' s University , and special powers and privileges have been

      conferred upon it ; and it is a truism to say that in our own country , to thousands of poor

      students and ambitious lads , the free libraries of the nation are veritable seats of learning

      and homes of culture . It is gratifying in this connection to notice that the recent offer of

      small scholarships to enable poor students — under the University Extension Scheme—to

      proceed to Oxford has evoked keen competition amongst the class for whom they

      — i are chiefly intended . It is , indeed , a remarkable as well as a cheering sign of the

      times , that amongst the winners of these scholarships a . , min the examinations which aro

      just over , are a working carpenter , two journeymen [ printerstwo fustian cuttersan artisan

      from a Government , dockyard , and , a clerk from a Yorkshire co-operative A . store . These are pre — -

      cisely the class of students which the modern librarian is peculiarl A . y well qualified * , to help ;

      and found , to willing his honour and even be it eager said , to he assist is generally all who |

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 15, 1889, page 1322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15101889/page/4/