An Odd Notion
""T HERE are some very serious-minded people in ‘the world who cherish the idea that novel réading is a flippant pastime, hardly deserving the attention of one who is truly devoted to the things of the mind. I suppose this odd notion partly derives from Victorian days when, in the strictest families, novels often had to be slipped under pillows or hidden in cupboards and were certainly never for Sundays; and even among enthusiastic movel-readers novels were thought of only as a relaxation. Even today some intellectual snobs still put the novel bottom: of the list of art-forms."-Helen Garrett, in an NZBS Book Shop talk. ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 27
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108An Odd Notion New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 27
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