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* A service hundreds of others and I thought we were going to miss was the one that was provided by the New Model Magazines Circulating Library. In the last week of December, its weekly supply of magazines suddenly stopped and a brief letter received in the first week of January stated that "we are closing our business due to unavoidable circumstances."
It was a rather unique business which started, if memory serves me right, around 25 years ago, initially operating in the Mylapore area. But, as its popularity grew, it seemed to spread from Adyar to T.Nagar, though for all I know it might have served an even wider area.
Three times a week, the delivery boy would deliver a sheaf of magazines in return for a monthly fee which depended on the number of different magazines contracted for and whether you wanted them new, old or virtually antique. As the service grew, it wasn't the most perfect of services, only about half your requirements being met, with the rest being the choice of the delivery boys. Nevertheless, it was a service looked forward to, disputes notwithstanding. Started by two young men, I rather think growth and rising costs killed the business; fortunately, someone seems to have, unannounced, picked up the pieces and I've started getting my weekly supply of magazines about ten days after the stoppage.
* A letter from the Armenian Church of Holy Nazareth in Calcutta received at the end of December informed me that a statue of Rev. Harathun Shimavonian had been unveiled and dedicated in the grounds of the Church a few days earlier.
I can't help feeling that the statue should have been erected in Madras where the Rev. Shimavonian lived all his life in India, from 1784 till his death in 1824 (Miscellany, October 24). It was here that he, in 1794, started the first Armenian journal in the world, which is what makes Shimavonian a historic figure worthy of being commemorated with a statue.
S. MUTHIAH
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