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Dante, for example, rates a spot on the secluded shelves along with Frank Harris and Fanny Hill because of the value of a particular edition of "The Divine Comedy." Editions that are rather valuable, but not quite valuable enough to ocupy space in the Houghton Rare Book Library, are locked...
But the volumes on the shelves of the "Inferno," or Cage, as most Library officials choose to call it, are by no means limited to work of an erotic nature. Mingled with studies on white slavery and perversion, one finds Dante's "Divine Comedy," Browning's "Complete Poems," and the...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, yesterday termed "idiotic" the criteria being considered for the returning of his pamphlet. "What about Communism" to the shelves of the Denver Public School libraries.
Auctions for the Ladies. The Pequot Library Association knew that the old books were the gifts of two wealthy Southport ladies, Mrs. Virginia Monroe and Mrs. Mary Wakeman. Mrs. Monroe, who donated the library, which opened in 1893, made it her hobby to collect interesting old books for its shelves...
Werrey picked out a few of the oldest-looking items and locked them in her vault; the rest were left standing on Pequot's shelves for the people of Southport to enjoy. Then, after the war, inflation hit Southport and the library began having money troubles.