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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 1

George Cram Crook, the author of the celebrated book, "Tho Chasm," in a recent address, gave a list of books and their authors who wero what lie termed either conscious or unconscious Socialists. The rending of those books, he believed, would tend to develop (lie imaginative faculty in their readers. Ho placed Maxim Gorky at the head of all world writers as the greatest imaginative writer. He suggested the reading of "News from Nowhere" and "The Dream of John Bull," by William Morris; "The Spy," by Maxim Gorky; "Songs of the Army of th. Night." by Fiancis Adams; "On th< White Stone," by Anatole France.; "The Fnsocial Socialist," by George H. Shaw; "A Traveller from Altrurin" and "Tlirou'j;h the Needle's Eye," by \V. I). Howells; "In This, Our World," by Charlotte Perkins Oilman; "No. '), St, John's Street" and "The Yellow Van," by Richard Whiting; "The NinetenUis," by James Oppenheim; "The Breaking of Bounds," by A. 1). Ficke ■; "Strife, by John Galsworthy; "Ferdinand La Salle," by Brandos; "Chant') Communal," by Traubel; "Toward De moeracy," by Carpenter; "Leaves of Grass," by Whitman; and Boelscho's "Evolution of Man."