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of dedicating, in October, 1953, the James With the force and conviction which has en- Ford Bell Room of the University of Minne- deared Mr. Pargellis to his colleagues in re- sota Library which houses the great Bell search libraries, he insists upon the scholarly Collection of rare books and maps on discovery value of the genuine article, the rare book and exploration. itself as contrasted with the reprint or fac- The five essays, all brief, contribute facets simile. Colton Storm, in "The Specialized to the general theme of scholarship's debt to Collection" and Louis B. Wright, in "Ameri- discriminating collectors. The first paper can Book Collectors" return, in specific terms, by Theodore Blegen, dean of Minnesota's to the theme of the scholar's debt to the great Graduate School, nicely introduces the theme, American book collectors—those whose collec- puinting out the distinguished American com- tions have been added as integrated special pany of great collectors with whom Mr. Bell's collections to important research libraries, and name is linked: Huntington, Folger, Morgan, those whose collections have been established McCormick, Newberry, Clements, Ayers, as separately housed libraries for the use of Lenox, Chapin, John Carter Brown, Clark, the public. Arents, John G. White, Coe. Mr. Blegen The little volume, Book Collecting and gives us a thumbnail sketch of Mr. Bell, the Scholarship, is much like the one called Rare man, following with some detail on the Books and Research which was published by genesis of the Bell Collection and its final the UCLA Library in 1951, and there have scope.
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