The Library World Volume 45 Issue 6

ANOTHER New Year affords another opportunity to wish our readers at home and abroad, serving with the Armed Forces or doing their work of maintaining the home front, the best of fortune in the most hopeful time ahead. We have come through much anxiety but, if the truth is told, 1942 was a year when the worst prophecies with which it opened proved to be false. It is hardly imaginable that the peril in which we stood two years ago, then colossal and present, should have become something which, however formidable, now seems manageable.