MR McGREGOR ON BOOKS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8138, 12 May 1906, Page 5

MR McGREGOR ON BOOKS.

(Tu the Editor). Sir,-Mr McGregor objects to the youth of to-day reading light literature, and suggests a study of the "old authors." Mr McGregor evidently wants the young man to spend his spare hoars raking amongst the oobwebs of the dead-and-gone past in the study of a long-haired shriek whuse ideas are just about as muoh out-of-date as the moa. "Old authors" whose existence was contemporaneous with the reap-books and the flail. Mr McGregor is, I understand, a prantioal farmer. Now, I would re speotfully ask him to carefully study, and put to practical use, the works of the "old authors" in his own line of business. To do this it will, of course, be necessary for Mr MoGregor to run his grain-drill into a ditoh and leave it there. He will also have to stop a gap in the fence with his up-to-date cultivator, and make a hen-roost of hia reaper and binder But he will be studying the "old authors" in agricultural work, whose ideas are just as suitable to tbe\present day as the ideas of the literary "old authors," whom he so confidently recommends the youth of Masterton to carefully study.—l am, etc., WEKA.