“COARSE” WAR BOOKS.
“Coarse,” war books were condemned by the Rev. W. Lewis RobertI son, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England, speaking at the Genernl Assembly, reports the “Daily Telegraph” of London, “I have seldom known the analysis of evil either in the human heart or in society do do much good,” he said. “The fact is that the gloomy and depressing critic or narrator achieves his purpose by taking his own cross-section of what he is examining and describing. That is what certain men are now doing with the story of the war. In the black picture disfigured by coarseness, which the author plainly himself enjoj'is, we do not, I am sure, find the truth. This kind of emphasis I feel is so unfairly struck because it is sensational, and is ifound to be financially profitable. It is somewhat like the strong emphasfis to be employed in advertisement in order, to sell the wrong kind of article. To invent literary falsehoods is a poor | game to play.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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169“COARSE” WAR BOOKS. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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