And under each heading, you are told where to lay your hand on the fullest available information 01 Your subject, 'There is a British Goat Society (did you know that before'). There are 195 books, maps, and charts about Gode in the public brary there, (Wigan has 500.) Colonel R. G. Berry, of Neweastle, County Down, has '100 books directly relating to the legend of the Holy Grail and 1,000 bearing on the subject. And gramophone records are available on Toan at the Glasgow Pubite Libraries.
'A few pages farther you learn that information on hops is to be had at Ent Malling Research Station, that Manchester University has 800 volumes works by or relating to Horace, and that placards and other notices relating to the elections at Honiton between 1818 and 1837 can be seen at (he Department of Printed Books in the British Museum, The Directory is the first of its kind, and the conpiters say they are conscious that there may be gaps (in one or two ease ime portant institutions were omitted at their own request). The gaps, however, are not easy to find. One discovers after a fairly thorough test that Austria is mentioned but not Hungary, Cyprus bat not altar, Bach and Hendel but not Purcell (or the Pareeil Society), and that church music hag section to itself while madrigals have not.
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