TIME AND THE TEXT BOOK.
“When reading has become a sglec live process.” says tiie “Times Ijxlucn tional Supplement,” “not n mere con sc-ieutiou.s wading through print, pleas ure will be taken in browsing in:a li.’ rary. Notice tlie title and the subtitle ol the hook, and observe who b the author. If you do not know hi name, try to discover his standing in tlie field of knowledge not despising him. however, if lie does not appem in ‘Mho’s Mho.’ It may be important, and it will probably be interesting, to
know his age and where lie was educated. In his preface he may say why lie wrote the book. If it- is scien-
tific book the student had better look lor tiie date of publication, remembering in any case that ‘by the time the swirling dust of the arena has settleii about any subject it is probably at least five years old’; that a text-book takes a couple of years to write, anfi perha-ps another year or two to get in to the libraries ; and that 5 plus 2 plus 2 is nearly a decade.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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187TIME AND THE TEXT BOOK. Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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