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His deputy called him diabolus bibliothecae, “the devil of the library”; others referred to him simply as Old Nick.

The Hentoff bibliotheca reads almost like an anthology: works by a jazz aficionado, a mystery writer, an eyewitness to history, an educational reformer, a political agitator, a foe of censors, a social critic.

Aiming at historical fulness and fidelity, we turned to our national bibliotheca at the British Museum, where we fished out of the vasty deep of treasures a MS. without date or name.

The Germans have a tolerable lending library; and the public bibliotheca in the Town House, near the Jesuit church, is rich in old volumes, mostly collected from religious houses.

This national bibliotheca sacra in which the writings of the prophets were deposited as soon as they were composed is the product of pure fiction.