John Macfarlane, Library Administration (1898)
“ It is fortunate that the execution of a work on library administration should have fallen into the hands of one familiar with the organisation of the largest, or almost the largest, library in the world, the one where questions of library management have probably been more actively canvassed than anywhere else, where discussions have been most fully recorded, and where the results of reform and innovation are visible upon the largest scale. ”
John Macfarlane, Canadian National Songs — Canada Fair… (1899)
“ Trophies of thought, and high deeds that embolden— Dower of the years and the ages for thee.' Queen of the pinewood, the lake and the river, Daughter of sea-kings and lords of romance, Triumphs of peace be thine heritage ever. ”
John Macfarlane, Library Administration (1898)
“ Macfarlane's constant reference to the British Museum imparts a kind of historical unity to his volume, and is a practical as well as a literary gain if two essential cautions are borne in mind—that not every detail of the management of a great library is suitable for adoption in a small one; and that, the Museum system having long ago taken definite shape, many modern discoveries and suggestions have not, and cannot have, been there subjected to the experimental tests to which, on abstract grounds, they would have been justly entitled. ”
