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In addition to being well Force, known in his chosen profession, his spectacular success had already provided him with a very substantial life- time income under New York Life's rewarding com- pensation plan when he was only forty-one years of age. Howard Richard, like many other college alumni, is well established in a career as a New York Life repre- sentative. In business for himself, his own talents and ambitions are the only limitations on his potential in- come. In addition, he has the deep satisfaction of helping others. If you or someone you know would like more information on such a career with one of the world's leading life insurance companies, write: ]\ew York Life Insurance (NUC) Company College Relations, Dept. S 31 51 Madison Avenue, New York 10, N. Y. Books from Cornell Make Perfect Gifts CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS FOUNDED 1899 18 EAST AVENUE, ITHACA, N.Y. The Diaries of Andrew D. White H. A. STEVENSON '19, Managing Editor Edited by ROBERT MORRIS OGDEN, Late Professor of Psychology, Cornell Assistant Editors: University RUTH E. JENNINGS '44 IAN ELLIOT '50 Distributed by Cornell University Press for the Cornell University Library Issued the first and fifteenth of each month "It is the essentially homespun career of an upstate New Yorker that is revealed except monthly in January, February, July, in these diaries. ." So wrote Professor Ogden in his preface to this book—a and September; no issue in August. Sub- scriptions, $5 a year in US and possessions; selection of excerpts from the diaries which Andrew D. White kept so faithfully foreign, $5.75. Subscriptions are renewed an- for so many years. nually, unless cancelled. Second-class postage The diaries, discovered in the University Library in 1951, were White's paid at Ithaca, N.Y. All publication rights reserved. memoranda rather than a record of his thoughts. 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". presents the whole man in small space, neatly, sympathetically, compre- hensively ."-Saturday Review 271 pages, frontis., $3.50 ^Balmoral NASSAU CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS BAHAMAS Consult Your Travel Agent or Leonard P. Brickett, Rep. %cv ^? 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, New Ύork 32 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J., WAInut 4-5084 0*9^9^ (In Manhattan Ask Operator For Enterprise 6465) 224 Cornell Alumni News VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7 + DECEMBER 1, 1959 diminishes and eventually, of course, Why Rare Books? vanishes. Of the Gutenberg Bible, only BY PROFESSOR GEORGE H. HEALEY, PhD '47 three copies remain in private hands of the Bristol Lyrical Ballads, one copy; of Curator of Rare Books, University Library the 1603 Hamlet, not one. "THE AVERAGE rare-book seller today," All Fine Books Are Rare says Maurice Inman, "does most of his Books can be considered "rare" for business with university libraries. The reasons other than their scarcity. A cost- day of the big private library is almost ly book of color plates, for instance, over. People continue to buy rare needs and merits the protection of the books/' he concludes, "but many buy Rare Book Room, even if you could buy them now to give to institutions." another copy tomorrow. So too, any To be sure, the universities always book dated 1500 or before will gain owned rare books., acquired by intent or honorary admittance for its venerable- by chance, but until about twenty-five ness alone; for such books are from the years ago they were content with their cradle days of the printing process and Treasure Rooms or their Locked Press- are therefore called by the cradle name es; willing to accommodate the curious of "incunabula." Some books, not ex- visitor, happy to add gifts that came pensive but still very hard to replace, along, but little inclined to develop their are assigned to the Rare Book Room; rare holdings into organized, working Robert Penn Warren's edition of The units of their libraries. But now, as the Ancient Mariner, for instance. Some private collector fades, the university as books become rare because of their as- collector flourishes. sociations. Our 1810 edition of Milton, hardly a pretty book, would be valueless Collectors Help Universities Professor Healey delivered this talk at the annual meeting of the University Council in except for that bold signature on the The private collector is still there, but Ithaca. October 16. title-page: "John Keats." And our today he is likely to be working with a Christmas Carol, 1843, though it lacks university library. We shall hardly see most of the issue-points demanded by the foundation of any more independent collect them too. Because they are prized the fastidious, is yet cherished for its libraries like the Morgan. or the Foker they are dear; in both senses. Not all long inscription in the hand of Dickens or the Huntington. A university partner- "rare" books are even really scarce— for it was his Christmas present to ship is the present mode. The Bancroft there must be well over 200 extant copies Thackeray. All medieval manuscripts Library joins the University of Califor- of the Shakespeare First Folio—but most are "rare books." Each is ancient and nia; the Clark is at UCLA; the Clements such are as rare in numbers as they each is unique.