FEWER BOOK-LOVERS
MOST DISQUIETING FEATURE OF OUR TIME. It strikes me as I write that one of the most disquieting features of our time is that so few young people have a love of books or thrill when they are let loose in a library, says Dr Albert Peel in his new book, “Thirty-five to Fifty.” There seems to be a little of the passion for reading that marked the despised Victorian of the Samuel Smiles generation. Now a youth does not read “Oliver Twist”; he “sees it on the pictures,” and anything which hasn’t the scares of “The Ringer” “bores him stiff.” And just as the youth is of this type, so his father, if he be well off, never thinks of browsing, except in his newspapers. He may have a yard of Dickens and two feet of Ruskin and Carlyle nicely bound, but he never thinks of opening a volume- If he reads a book at all he trusts his wife or daughter to bring him something from the libraries. Browsing in bookland! Foolish indeed are they who never visit that enchanted country! Far cheaper than travel, it yet partakes of all its joys.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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196FEWER BOOK-LOVERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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