Neither a Borrower nor a Lender

Abstract

Our local Public Library is a Victorian Gothic building with two wings which look like public conveniences, and are. Its windows look out upon the borough mortuary, and a churchyard where, beneath a crumbling sarcophagus long since converted to a flight deck for pigeons, one of the Regicides lies interred. From basement gratings across the way, ambiguous odours, wafting from the canteen in the Town Hall, merge in the petrol‐laden air with reminiscences of carbolic that almost, but not quite, overlay the delectable aroma of printers' ink.

Citation

HAYMON, S. (1958), "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender", Library Review, Vol. 16 No. 7, pp. 455-458. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012290