Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Volume 4 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JAMES HOPE MOULTON. 1863-1917. 1. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LITERARY LEGACIES. By The Rev. W. FIDDIAN MOULTON, M.A. THE sad tragedy of 7th April has appealed with force to very many, very varied, and very scattered communities. Even those who are most disposed to condone anything that is German cannot escape the feeling that there is something here which it is not easy to defend?witness Deissmann's plea concerning " crossing the forbidden zone ": while to those who are English in spirit as well as in nationality the whole proceeding stands out as conspicuously criminal, and pathetically wasteful. Scholarship, religion, politics, friendship? these and other spheres are left sadly poorer; and from all parts of the world and from all classes of the community have poured in expressions of affection and esteem. It is doubtless because of Dr. J. H. Moulton's close connection with the mission of the John Rylands Library that Mr. Guppy desired to place on the permanent records of the Library some reference to him: and 1 suppose it was because I had known him longest that Mr. Guppy turned to me ! I take up the melancholy service without any reluctance, for I know full well how near the Library was to my brother's heart. He frequented it both as reader and as Governor; and it was probably because he was the former that he took so seriously his duties and privileges as the latter. To him it would seem no exaggeration or misuse of terms to speak of the mission of the John Rylands Library; for to him the Library was a personality clearly marked, and entrusted with no ordinary responsibilities and opportunities in respect of the world of scholarship. There are certain legends current that my gifted brother lispedGreek at three and passed from accidence...