A MODERN GYPSY SCHOLAR.
Not many bibliographical scholars have the qualities of the late Mr. A.H. Wheeler, whose catalogue of books pi-hiied before IG4I, in the library of Wadiiar.i College, is introduced (for Longmans) by Mr. J. C. Squire: "There was not a single tavern in Oxford or the neighbourhood, however small and secluded, where he had not repaired now and again, a tall, dark, Scholarg.\pcy. In London and on the Thames wataraide he always knew tho landlords and frequenters, male and female, hawkers, bookmakers, gamekeepers, gipsies, boat-builders, retired sea captains, all the sort.of characters in whose conversation can be found raciness, popular wisdom, and that sort of candour which is killed by the good manners of the superior ranks of society. '],
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21
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122A MODERN GYPSY SCHOLAR. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21
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