A HEALTHY TASTE
ROYAL FAMILY READING
Prince George has been complaining of the length of modern novels. At a dinner of the National Book Trades Provident Society he said that a' novel which hinted at a continuation was annoying. He liked the author who could finish his story in one volume. Like many busy people who enjoy reading, he sometimes found himself obliged to leave books half read.
■The King's youngest son is a confirmed admirer of Jane Austen's novels of English life, but he enjoys modern romances as welL An English author whom he reads with pleasure is Mr. John Galsworthy. Prince George is perhaps the most bookish of all the King's 6ons. ■ ■ Though the Prince of Wales is of a restless and eager disposition, he finds time now and then to spend an hour with some silent friend from the book--shelf. His Royal Highness eagerly reads books of travel and exploration, especially of ; the adventurous type, and is also fond of the autobiographies of great men. ,
The Prince of Wales has a great admiration for the sea stories of the late Joseph' Conrad, and can read them again and again. Among foreign novelists, he likes the romances of the great French master,.Victor Hugo. The Prince, has not fallen a victim to the modern, craze for mystery or detective fiction, though many' overworked men relax their minds with this kind of fiction. • .': - . . ■'.-...■■
The Prince, when he has time for pipe and novel, prefers to get on with something more solid.than the modern "thriller." ■ the Prince of Wales nor his brothers have any use for the flood of."sex" fiction which pours from-the printing1 press. The tastes of the Royal Family are particularly healthy in this regard, and it is a pity that this is not more generally known. . ■■.
• His Majesty the Eing never forgets that he has been a sailor. His days afloat were among the happiest of his life, and he is never-tired of recalling them;. For this reason he loves books treating of the sea, ships, and. sailors. -Voyages and travel are-King George's favourite reading, though he welcomes any book which has anything distinctive about it, ':.■■■
Both Queen: Mary : and Princess Eoyal like to choose their books themselves, at a famous bookshop in Piccadilly. There.the two Eoyal ladies display^ a knbwledge of the latest trends in literature, which sometimes astonishes the management of the establishment. ■-• . - ■•■ - - • ■■•
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 17
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397A HEALTHY TASTE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 17
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