...new, and he is no longer a man among men. I have lived to bury two generations, and among them man y friends whom I loved. I do not know, nor am known...who opened a Circulating Library in Birmingham, in 1756, since which time many have started in the race. I was the first who opened a regular Paper Warehouse...

...a sensible decay ; and, like a stone rolling down a hill, its velocity increases with the progress. I have lived to bury two generations, and among them...the first who opened a regular paper warehouse in 175G : there are now a great number. I was also the first who introduced the barrow with two wheels;...

...passage, written in 1809 when reviewing his past life and recording what he had done. He says : — " I was the first who opened a circulating library in...since which time many have started in the race." I may also mention here that a year earlier — namely, 1750 — a book club was established in the town...

...and elsewhere. EVBRARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. Hutton says (' Life,' by himself, p. 279), " I was the first who opened a circulating library in Birmingham in 1751." Franklin, in his ' Autobiography' (which he began to write 1771), says of London in 1725, " Circulating...

...and elsewhere. EVERARD HOME COLBMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. Button says ('Life,' by himself, p. 279), "I was the first who opened a circulating library in Birmingham in 1751." Franklin, in his ' Autobiography' (which he began to write 1771), says of London in 1725, "Circulating...

...the middle of the eighteenth century, by Samuel Fancourt. Hutton (Life of Himstlf, p. 279) says, " I was the first who opened a circulating library, in Birmingham, in 1751." Other notices of them, during the latter half of the century, will be found in Coleridge'* Bioyraphia...

...the middle of the eighteenth century, by Samuel Fancourt. Button (Life of himself, p. 279) says, " I was the first who opened a circulating library, in Birmingham, in 1751." Other notices of them, during the latter half of the ceutury, will be found in Coleridge's Biographia...

...animated him when, in 1809, reviewing the past and recording the things lie had accomplished, he says, "I was the first who opened a Circulating Library...1751, since which time many have started in the race." The next notable one was that established by Joseph Crompton, in Colmore Row, in 1763. There were also...

...nor am known by any soul living ?rior to my twenty-seventh year. But although I barely live myself, may have taught others to live. I was the first who...circulating library in Birmingham in 1751, since which time manyhave started in the race. I was the first who opened a regular paper warehouse in 1756 : there...

...Birmingham by William Hntton, afterwards the historian of that town.. In his "Autobiography" Hutton says : " I was the first who opened a circulating library in...1751, since which time many have started in the race." He, too, has a word for the ladies ; for he says : "As I hired out books, tir fair sex did not neglect...