REQUIRED READING
MODERN FRANCE, An_ Introduetion ta French Civilisation, by F. C; Roe; Longmans, English price 21/-. HIS work, by the Professor of French at Aberdeen, performs splendidly the function stated in the title. Something is said of the geography and history, and of the work of the Parliament and local government of France. Something also of Ravel, of Matisse, and of Proust. The spirit and genius of France (without which one can hardly envisage ‘Western civilisation being what is is) is described in generous terms. Nothing, strangely enough, is said of religion, which is perhaps the key to some of it. The "Eldest Daughter of the Church" incidentally sent the first Marists to New Zealand, from (if one recalls it correctly) Vézelay, in Burgundy, the ancient town in which Richard Coeur de Lion took the Cross. So competent a summary has not escaped the notice of educational authorities in New Zealand, and this book has already become required reading in some of our schools. It is difficult for a contemporary professor to live up to this, of course. . . One night at a Christmas party a teenager confronted Geoffrey Household, the American | writer, who was in a false nose and wearing a paper hat, With a toss of her pony tail she remarked, "So you're re-
quired readingl"
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 18
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221REQUIRED READING New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 18
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