TILTING AT WINDMILLS
SYDNEY, Sept. 3.-. "The* New Zealand delegate at tlie conferenee this week who inveigliea .against tlie popularity of thrillers, is but the latest evangelist in a line that goes as far back as Juvenal and even to Eaekiel," states the Sydney 'Herald when commenting on an address by Mr. W. J. Scott to.the New Education Fel lowship Gonference. "In spite of mys tery and detective stories since Poe ann Doyle, and of westerns since Owen Wis ter, there must occur naturally mucn trash but when leading statesmen and scholars of the English speaking world eonfess their addiction to such fare, there is evidently more to it than is dreamt of in this critic's philosophy. To dony that Willcie Collins or A. E. W. Mason wrote literature in this lme, is to ti! t at windmills. If such is reading fit only for butcher boys then at heart we are all butcher bo'ys — that is to say; human."
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 September 1946, Page 5
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