Priscilla K. Shontz and Richard A. Murray. What Do Employers Want: A Guide for Library Science Students. 1st ed. California: Library Unlimited, 2012. 119p. $45 (ISBN 9781598848281). LC2012-005693

be " in charge of publicity and jackets, " which included the designing of the latter. Through this, his appreciation of the visual appeal of books was bolstered by the practical experience of trying to make books look good. His office in the Victorian building that served as both staff headquarters and stock warehouse was next to that of philosopher and art historian Herbert Read, who served part-time as a literary adviser and from whom Franklin claims to have learned how to be " lazy. " A recurrent painful intrusion into that laziness is described: " I often found there were few troubles in my life so excruciating as meeting authors. There we sat in my small room, the two of us, as he seized the moment of total egoism to explain his book…there were times when, trying to follow an author's exposition, I suffered near-ulcerous stomach pain. " For that and other reasons, Franklin decided to chart a new course in his life and became a book dealer, and the next few chapters offer witty and sharp-eyed reminiscences of other dealers, such as Hans Kraus, and of clients, including his most important, the American millionaire Paul Mellon, whom he aided in augmenting the magnificent collection that eventually moved with Mellon to his English country house at Wormsley Park. As is often the case with book dealers, Franklin's own collecting and scholarly interests and his work in the trade went hand in hand, or sometimes hand out of hand. For example, his deep interest in William Morris (whom he describes as one of his heroes) led him to the acquisition of a complete set of all the Kelmscott Press books, including an example of each title printed on vellum when such existed, or on paper when no vellum copies were printed. One notable exception to this was his copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, which was on paper not vellum; but even that was special, being a presentation copy from Morris and Burne-Jones to Swinburne. Franklin sold this beloved set to fund other ventures. Morris is the topic of one of the more or less self-contained essays that make up the chapters of the second half of the book. Along with an assessment of Morris, these essays include as topics the Daniel Press, the manuscript of Nijinski's unexpurgated autobiography and the troubles and pleasures the temporary ownership of that document brought …