NEGLECTED BOOKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 144, 17 December 1908, Page 7

NEGLECTED BOOKS.

A CHURCH COMPLAINT. [b* teleghaph — press assocmuon.J CHRISTCHUROH, This Day. air. 8.. Ct. Ell, lost evening at f.ha Old Colonists' Association gathering made a serious complaint concerning the care given to a number of valuable books in Chiist's College library. He stated that many years ago a number of books, some over 300 years old, that hud been brought from England by the old colonihts were handed over in trust to Christ's College authorities. Some fifteen months ago he had occasion to visit the college ' library and saw one of tho books on a worm-eaten shelf. The book was over 247 years old, and it was in an excellent stale of preservation, but covered with dust and in surroundings that reflected anything but credit on the authorities who seemed to have stored valuable books in a most careless manner, and with little regard tc safety He had spoken to several people con nected with the college about the book?, but without result, and he hoped that a public statement would have the effect of stirring the people up to see that these valuable links with the past were properly cared for. The hooka might be handed over to the public library, where a separate room could be act apart for them. Certainly he hoped something would be done.