MANY NOVELS SUPPRESSED
__ BY BRITISH LIBRARIANS BORROWERS CLOSELY WATCHED. (Sydney "Sun" Cable.) LONDON, November 15. The “Daily News” discloses that- certain municipal library officials are suppressing many books,, including those of H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Anthony Hope, • Arnold Bennett, -John Maxwell, Anatole France, Ij, de V. ' Stacpoole, and Eden Philpotts'. The librarians, acting on their own initiative, frequently mark undesirable volumes with a red star, and lock them in their private rooms. Borrowers are closely watched and prevented from specialising, in, a certain type of fiction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12606, 17 November 1926, Page 9
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87MANY NOVELS SUPPRESSED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12606, 17 November 1926, Page 9
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