A Book About Books

The Newsletter is not a vehicle for book reviews, and this is not one. Rather, it is a shameless plug for one of the finest contributions in recent years to the literature of book collecting and the enjoyment of books. While technology marches swiftly onward, those whose pleasures include reading-and especially reading about books and book collectors--should hasten to add to their repertoires Nicholas A. Basbanes's euphoniously entitled: A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passon for Books (Henry Holt, 1995).

Copies are available to visitors in the Special Collections Division and the main Lauinger stacks, the latter shelved on the lower level at Z992.B34 1995.