Library

Socially the term was well provided when we received a kind invitation from the Head Master to the Choir Supper. This took place in the small dining hall on Tuesday, 16th February, and was a very happy occasion.

Music sung during the term included :-

Thou must leave thy lowly dwelling—Berlioz. The Noble Stem of Jesse. O'er the hill and o'er the vale. Up good Christen folk and listen. A Spotless Rose—Howells. All they from Saba shall come—Jacob Handl. The Three Kings—Cornelius. Achieved is the glorious work—Haydn. Thou wilt keep him—S. S. Wesley. Ave verum Corpus—Mozart. O Lord increase my faith—Orlando Gibbons. The King of Love—Bairstow. as well as

Stanford Evening Service in B flat (with the School). and, new to us this term,

E. W. Naylor Benedicite in G (with part for the School arranged by Peter Godfrey). F.W.

THE LIBRARY

After the more spectacular advances of last year, notably in the lay-out and amenities of the Library, this must have seemed a humdrum year to the casual observer and even to some of the library monitors themselves. In fact this is not so. Our task this year has been to consolidate the above advances by steady and efficient librarianship and to mop up certain pockets of resistance left over from last year. In this task the Library has again been well served by its monitors, led by F. D. Lavender, an Assistant Librarian who is a worthy successor to Crossley.

Our first problem was to check as far as possible the number of library books which are unaccountably 'lost' each term—a perennial problem in any library that must take its borrowers on trust. By a more rigid application of the 'fortnightly rule' for borrowing and by dint of chasing up offenders, this leakage has been considerably diminished if not entirely stopped. We should like to appeal, therefore, to all users of the Library to be more scrupulous in recording all books taken out and in returning them promptly. We can ill afford to 'lose' standard works which may well be out of print now or may cost twice their original price to replace if available.

Secondly, we are attempting to salvage the more important books whose covers are worn out, by having them re-bound by the Scottish firm which already supplies us with bound 'Penguin' books. Moreover every new book entering the Library is now provided with a 11