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Charles Murray: Author of “Hamewith”
James KiddTHE POPULARITY of Hamewith and its author was quite phenomenal in the north‐east of Scotland. It is a significant mark of the affection in which the author was held by the…
The Publishing of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
G.D. HargreavesIN 1846, Charlotte Brontë was attempting to find a publisher for the sisters' first book—a selection of their poems. It was a bad time for poetry. In the earlier years of the…
Between the Acts: Library Services to Schools from 1919 to 1944
Mark A. BloomfieldIT CAN STILL BE SAID, after forty‐eight years have passed, that ‘little has yet been written of the history of school libraries, for indeed the history is still in the making’…
The Variety of Dickens's “Bleak House”
Muriel M. GreenCHARLES DICKENS'S immense popularity when his novels first appeared in weekly and monthly parts, and his continuing popularity today is due, above all, to his skill in creating…
The Catnachs of West Africa
A.J. FordyceA FEW YEARS AGO I worked for a while in a university in Northern Nigeria. Its main campus was at Zaria, a hundred miles or so to the south, but the department in which I worked…
The Hero without a Name: B. Traven's “The Death Ship”
Neville BraybrookeTHE DEATH SHIP is the most famous of all B. Traven's books. When it first came out in Germany in 1935, it sold over 200,000 copies before it was banned. It is subtitled ‘The Story…