FRED BASON'S DIARY —Edited by Nicolas Bentley—British Book Centre .Out of the murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a “bloody bookworm” named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopdia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast
