SOME LIBRARY FACTS
_ “ The country’s expenditure on public libraries during 1932—including in some cases museums, and in a very lew cases ' art galleries—amounted to £2,229,780,” said Mr H. D. Roberts in a speech reported in the ‘ Brighton Herald.’ “The books in the libraries totalled 24,332,105. The issue for the year amounted to 190,736,140 volumes. The tickets in use, excluding the county libraries, numbered 6,128,845. “These figures, vast as they are,” said Mr Roberts, “ are increasing year by year; and the proper place o'f the public library in the educational system of this country is now being adjudged in its true value.”
Hr Lion Feuchtwanger, author of 1 Jew Suss ’ and 1 The Ugly Duchess,’ arrived in London last month for the publication of his new novel, ‘The Oppermanus.’ It is already 'banned in Germany. , r
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 19
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