{"id":1392,"date":"2016-05-30T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:01:53","slug":"bookside-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/bookside-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookside Manner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you ever highlight, underline, or add your own notes and musings into the margins of your own books? Do you dog-ear your pages? Upon discovering this 1963 Gazette editorial in the archives, we felt inspired to put the following question out there to all book lovers and bibliophiles: How is your \u201cbookside” manner?<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Cruelty To Books.” Author unknown. The Gazette, April 20, 1963. Part of the Osler Library’s Kelen Family fonds, it is from a 1960s scrapbook arranged in memory of Osler Librarian, W. W. Francis (1878-1959).<\/p><\/div>\n

For those inspired by this topic, we suggest taking a look at writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1883 posthumous “lost” novel The Narrative of John Smith<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong>, wherein the altruistic protagonist Smith lobbies for a bill to be passed by the House of Commons concerning better care and preservation of books:<\/p>\n

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“Since we have societies for the prevention of various kinds of cruelty, why do we not have a society for the prevention of cruelty to books?”<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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