LOST AND FOUND

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 10

LOST AND FOUND

MISS?NG BOOK CASE The action in which H. G. Rogers claimed the return of a first edition of "Alexander Pope," or its value, from J. H. Saunders, came to an unexpected ending in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afterBoon, when the defendant produced the tiook which he had stated previously had been lost, and handed it over. Johannes C. Andersen, the librarian o£ j(,he Turnbull Library, said that a few days after the last hearing of the case he went to the Dominion Museum Library to look over a few books the library was getting jid of. He caine upon a volume of Pope which seemed something like the one concerned in the case. After examining it, witness communicated with the defendant, who identified the book as the missing one. It had been found lying on the desk of the Director of the Museum. Witness Baid the boot by itself was of no commercial value. Dr. G. H. Scholefield, Parliamentary Librarian, said that he had never seen the book before that day, and its value, he thought, was not more than Cd or Is. It was practically valueless by itself. Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., considered that there was no -easonable doubt that the book in Court was the plaintiff's book. According to the expert evidence, such an edition as the one plaintiff was claiming did not exist. "It seems to have been a chapter of accidents on both sides," he said. The case was dismissed. Both parties are to pay their own costs. Mr. Goodwin appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Spratt for the defendant.