BIOGRAPHERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1929, Page 8

BIOGRAPHERS.

“Truth is the end of the biographer. It is what he is after. That platitude makes it desirable that in his record the biographer should endeavour to confine himself to those matters oi which the truth can he ascertained; that ho should steer clear of the area of pure conjecture. That is u’hy, as a very material person, I am always sceptical of those biographers who unlock tiie secrets of the souls of defunct statesmen and monarchs. 1 do not admit that the compilation of a card index is the writing of history. Biography is a tiling with certain perfectly definite limits. It is a region that is hounded on the north by history, on the. south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. It seems to mo,” added Mr Guedalla, “that von can put all you have to say about a man into one volume.”—Air.

Philip Guedalla, in a speech at the Authors’ Club. HEROINE OF SIX. In an unavailing effort to save her three-year-old brother from drowning, Evelyn Vera Kinchin, ((>) oi Northcote Road, Tonbridge, nearly lost her own life. The little hoy, Neville Stephen Kinchin, was playing on the sports ground near the River Medway when he fell into the water. When his sister held out her hand to him, the hoy grapsed it and pulled her into the wa!o'\ Another child called two hockey players who pulled Loth children out. Artificial respiration was unsuccessfully npplied to the hoy. r H'e gi> I was taken to Tonbridge Hospital sulfej'ing from shoes.