Catalogue of the Kimberley-Public Library (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Laurence, P. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0428093825 ISBN 13 : 9780428093822

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Kimberley-Public Library

The Kimberley Library is of comparatively recent origin, having been established towards the end of 1882, and Opehed in January, 1883. It is a common experience that literary and intellectual interests are plants of slow growth in mining centres. The raw material and heterogeneous elements of which a rush of diggers is composed, in one of the Western States of America, have little in common with the academic spirit of Massachusetts. The men who gathered together at the dry diggings from all quarters of the world, when diamonds were discovered on the farm of Bultfontein, and at the new rush or Colesberg Kopje, afterwards to become famous as the town of Kimberley, were of a type very different from the leisured students of Mr. Dessin's books or Sir George Grey's collection in the metropolis of the Colony. As time went on, however, and life became more settled, Kimberley began to feel the need of books. An enterprising citizen established a cirating library; the Diamond Fields had a Mudie of their own. By and by, in the time of the great com pany mania, some benevolent individuals started the idea of establishing a public library under the Joint Stock Companies Act. The shares were taken up, mainly with the philanthropic Object of benefiting the community; but unfortunately the thing was planned on too large a scale, and the means adopted were scarcely suitable to the end. An extensive building, ill-adapted to the requirements of a library, was erected with the help of a mortgage. But the capital proved insufficient, times became bad, the public support, which was expected, was expected in vain; the mortgagees became impatient; and, in the end, the Library Company, like many another, went into liquidation, and the library building, purchased by the Municipality, was converted into the Town Hall Of Kimberley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0428093825
• ISBN 13: 9780428093822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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