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Catholic National Library
21/November/2007 Filed in: Jottings
To London yesterday, to see Cardinal Murphy O'Connor and the Trustees of the Catholic National Library before the official launch of the Appeal to ensure that the future of the library and St Cecilia's can be assured. Fascinated by a number of statues, fountains and gates erected since our last visit and about which it would probably be wiser (though less interesting) to say nothing. Ruskin may have been wrong in his view that no great art has yet arisen save among a nation of soldiers, but it is difficult to see some of our latest public monuments as great art. Does that make one a philistine or an old fogey or merely brutally frank?