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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 6

• Sliortlv after the publication of last year's report," bays the librarian of the Tmubull Library, in his? animal report, "it was found that tho late Mr. 'lurnbull had arranged with the famous London'firm of booksellers, Bernard Quaritch. Limited, to get togothor a collection of literature dealing with tho history of the British stage, intending no doubt that such 6hould form a supplement to or complement of the extensive and most valuable collection of .English dramatic literature which he had built up with such infinite care and industrious research. The Government decided that the collection ordered by Mr. Tumbull should be taken ovor bv the State for tho library, and the books have since arrived. The collection includes over five hundred voiumos, many of them boing rare and valuable works, and "constitutes a mass of literature on the history of the British 6tngo from Elizabethan times to tho present day, which ia probably unequalled in any library outside that of the British Muwnai."