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Excerpt from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
The papers here gathered together represent the activities of a librarian in directions outside the boundaries of his professional career, although the in?uences of it may be detected in them here and there. Except for those in?uences they have little connection and the transition of thought and treat ment from one to another may occasionally seem violent. It may, however, serve to protect the reader from the assaults of monotony. A. E. B.
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