THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Tin-; Gii-'t ok tiib Magic Key. Defoe, a busy hack, saw in the experience of Alexander Selkirk a subject for a “best seller” and his judgment was sound. He had no suspicion that his tale was to imbue the youth of Britain with the colonising, pioneering spirit. Dickens the propagandist is artistically inferior to Dickens the creator of Sam Weller and many another immortal. And some of those whose work lias woven itself into the national fibre were men of (humble origin and scant education. Shakespeare. with bis small Latin and less Greek: Bunyan, a tinker, who wrote the “Pilgrim’s Progress” in gaol; Burns, the unlettered plougliboy, owed nothing to the schools. They had a deeper knowledge, a wider vision, than can be acquired from the study of books. They had the magic key which gave them the freedom of the soul of man. —“ Sydney Herald.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1926, Page 2
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150THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1926, Page 2
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