MENTAL SICKNESS
"A vast amount of mental siekness is among us, and mental siekness is a prolifie souree of physical ill-health. If we eould preseribe for sick minds, physicians would have much less to do. We need book-doetors who, with expert knowledge and wide experience of the psychological effeets of certain classes of books, could minister to minds diseased, and wbo would prescribe a course of reading for a partieular mental ailment or obsession. Tbere are books wbich serve us as magic casements, and we are secretly thrilled througb our whole being when we open tbem. We lose the world that is in the world that ought to be, or* a world of fantasy, and ultimately we return to the world that is with a smile playing about our lips, reinvigorated and stimulated for eontact with life by reading the right hook. Reading should strengthen our band and our heart to deal witji things that are rightly and firmly, with strength, and above all, with kmdness.,;=^Mr W. H. Selwyn in Chambers' JouriiaL
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 22, 10 February 1937, Page 4
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