IN DEFENCE OF LIGHT READING
'‘Society, dead of alive, can havo.no charm'without intimacy and no in-T-vtimacyj without interest in trifles. . . . If we would feel at ease in any comI we wish, to rind humour in its jokes aijd point in its repartees, we must kndw someth,ing of the beliefs and the.preaches of its various mem. hers, their and their ha their hopes and their fears, their mniadies, their marriages ntkl tlicir flirtations. ... If these things he beneath our notice-we need make no Attempt to extract pleasure out o{ one of the most delightful departments or literature. Tiiat there is such a tiling as trifling information I do not. of course, question; but the frame of mind in which
the reader is constantly weighing the exact importance of each circumstance presented to his notice by the author is not one conducive to the true enjoyment of a picture whose effect depends upon a multitude of slight find seemingly insignificant-touches which impress the mind often without remaining in the memory.”—Lord Balfour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 2
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169IN DEFENCE OF LIGHT READING Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 2
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