3. Your Committee cannot close their pleasing duties without congratulating
the Inhabitants of the District on the dawn of what to them appears an
auspicious future as the establishment of such a Society cannot fail to have
a most beneficial effect on all classes, tending as it must do to elevate the
tone of Moral and Intellectual attainment in the minds of all members
of the community, and would therefore urge the cordial and hearty
cooperation of every well wisher of his adopted or native land.
Committee Minutes, 29 October 1857
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34. Most frequently borrowed titles
1. History of England, Lord Macaulay
2. What will he do with it?, Bulwer Lytton
3. The Waverley Novels, Sir Walter Scott
4. Poor Jack, Captain Marryatt
5. Ten Thousand a Year, Samuel Warren
6. Japhet in Search of a Father, Captain Marryatt
7. Frank Fairleigh, Frank Smedley
8. Harry Coverdale’s Courtship, Frank Smedley
9. The Phantom Ship, Captain Marryatt
10. Mr Midshipman Easy, Captain Marryatt
11. Rattlin the Reefer, Edward Howard
12. Arthur O’Leary, Charles Lever
13. The Conquest of Peru, William Prescott
14. The Fortunes of Hector O’Halloran, W.H. Maxwell
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35. Most popular authors
1. Captain Marryatt (87 loans)
2. Bulwer Lytton (47)
3. Lord Macaulay (37)
4. Frank Smedley (34)
5. James Grant (29)
6. W. H. Maxwell (27)
7. Charles Lever (25)
8. Sir Walter Scott (24)
9. William Prescott (23)
10. William Harrison Ainsworth (22)
11. Charles Dickens (21)
12. Emma Robinson (20)
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