Word: wherein
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wherein the firelight falls upon...
...Library. The writer's grievances seem to be: first, that the Library owns only one copy of "some of the standard books of reference" (the italics are our own); secondly, that "the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels, or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
...massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion," the writer may possibly know what he means, but I confess I have not the least idea...
...found in, for instance, Brodhead's "History of New York," Ferguson's "Handbook of Architecture," or Knight's "History of England," is hardly aware how much sarcasm there is in his words. Meanwhile the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
...consequence of his failing eye-sight, the position, hardly expecting that it would be accepted, was offered Mr. Justin Winsor, who for nearly ten years has been the able and efficient Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Of the subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views...