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Sir,—Within recent years I have had two overseas visitors, a wellread Londoner, and a Frenchwoman. The man, determined not to be taken in by size and efficiency in the library, checked for recent publications. Everything he looked for was available — the latest publications in science, art, literature, fiction. Even a book of his own writing, thirty years old, out of print, undistinguished, was in the “stacks.” “This is the best lending library I have seen anywhere in the world,” he said. “There is nothing like it in London.” My French visitor watched in surprise while I borrowed, free, our Christmas-New Year reading — 13 books in all, some recent publications in French. “There is nothing remotely like this in Paris,” she said. “I don’t think we have lending libraries at all.” Why does Susan Taylor (June 9) carp so?—Yours, etc.,
I. M. WITHERS. June 10, 1984.
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