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ly opposed to 'youths reading such Frequently,, I think, the study of stuff. Why. What would they prose and verse, totally unit for offer as substitutes? Dickens, the youthful mind, has very, harm- Thackery, Emerson, Shakespeare..ful results. I heard recently of a or The War Cry. The grounds of case where Francis Thompson's their objections briefly stated, are "Hound of Heaven" was studied by Mr. John K. Ewers writes in the that the boy will acquire a fond- a leaving class in a Government ness for Wild-West literature, and Secondary School No lover of "West Australian":

will have no desire to read any postry can deny that "The Hound" thing else. Such reasoning is, of is a masterpiece that it is one of the truly "big" poems in the lan- guage. But can anyone' imagine'a boy or a girl of sixteen or seven- teen, reading it with understand- ing or appreciation?: "The Hound of Heaven" is the outcome of the poet's very full experience of life on the more unpleasant side. recalls his dismal descents into the very dregs of existence, his momen tary fleeting spasms of clear vision. It is, in brief, the epitome of a life fully, widely lived. And it is given to youths, and commended to their study! It is doubtful if 2. per cent. of those who die at a na- tural old age can decipher its com plete meaning, let alone chifldren who have no knowledge of life, save' a distant, idealistic conception. I can well imagine the boy, meeting Francis Thompson's collected works at a later date and saying, "That

From the time a child learns to distinguish the phonic value of the letters of the alphabet and, to re-courge, puerile...

The-boy's mind is by no means cognise them as words when place the Exed thing they imagine it to ed in proper sequence, there opens be. Because he reads Zane Grey up before him a veritable wonder at sixteen, it does not follow that land of new experiences, new plea he will read him at twenty-six. sures. He becomes then enthralled As a matter of fact, it is almost by the doings and the sayings, then certainty that he will not. The pains and the joys of the boys and youthful mind is in a state of girls, and men and women who

change. It is developing on an up- materialise from the pages as he ward grade from sheer childishness. reads. It is a liberal thraldom this, to maturity. And that he reads into which he finds himself cast and American Wild-Westers at sixteen held. I think at no time in later or seventeen, is merely a sign that life, does a person read with to the development is taking place much dear characterisation, 80 along normal lines, neither forced much acute visualisation, as in the nor stuated. Previously, he has days of boyhood and of youth.

been engrossed in his Efiis and his I well remember that a kindly Ballantyne, who usually centre aunt, with whom I lived during my their stories about a boy in the late Arat four years of school, provid- teens, their main theme being ad- ed me with a small sixteen, page venture. With Mulford, the boy fairy-story book once a week. It keeps to his inmate love of action, was my happy privilege (I grew to but he develops from boy heroes to regard it as a natural right!) to adult heroes. There may be the awaken each and every Sunday cry that such books contain mat- morning to find one of these, to ter unfit for an immature mind. gether with a bar of chocolate That would, indeed, be a just ob- placed under my pillow, Any Jection, were it not that the very words fall utterly to express the immaturity of the mind renders it luxurious anticipation with which without true grounds. Because of I groped for them there, the mo-his lack of life experience, the boy mentary flush of disappointment does not grasp the significance, of when I couldn't And them, these things, which are too deep and the wild burst of delight when for him. Again adventure is his I did.

consuming passion. Sexual or psychological problems he will pass unnoticed.

It

old bore! We had "The' Hound' "st school, and I don't want to know any more of him!" Had the poems "Daisy" or "The Poppy", or even "In No

Strange Land". been studied, they would have made a far closer appeal than the most high-f planning and mature of all Thomp son's poems.

But no! Our educational autho. rities insist on cramming into minds unfit to receive them, books and poema of this nature, It is It was but a short step to pick

common knowledge that those who up from my older companions the

study Shakespeare extensively at inimitable ponny school series...... How then are we to convert final- | school, seldom read him afterwards, "The Gem," "The Magnet," "The ly his attention to deeper and bet- And not infrequently, overburden- Penny Popular," and in them to ter booka? Our secondary schools ed in their youth, they turn to follow the adventures of Billy Bun-are attacking the problem by the novels of the lighter type in ma ter, Frank Nugent, Tom Merry, study of the masters of English turity, with a sigh of relief!. Lord Mauleverer and others. And Llerature. Reverting to my own There is a steady line of deve- looking back on the unadulterated case, with apologies, I remember topment for a boy's reading. Let joy, they gave me. I wonder if the having studied among others, Car-him follow his desires unmolested. adulta, who now-a-days look nak lyle, Shakespeare, Dickens, Thacke- and the results will naturally be ance at auch stories, really under-ray, Chaucer, Lamb, Wordsworth, good. Guide him here, guide him! stand the child-mind, and its capa- Tennyson, some Keats, a little there. Place before him a well- } elty for enjoyment.

Browning, some Shelley and some graduated bookcase of books, and It is a problem to most thinking of Milton's "Paradise Lost." he will advance by reading with parents to know what their boys These authors, while acting as in- proper discrimination. But to say, shall read. In order to cultivate a dications of what lies before the "You must not read that! "correct" taste, they place before youthful reader, in no way destroy must read this!" is asking for their children books which ap- his inherent taste for adventure, trouble, and, moreover, it is unfair pear, to their adult mind, and it is only insofar as they ap to the boy. to be suitable for children. peal to that taste, that their study Yet the sight of boy por will be fully successful. Ing over "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," or "John Halifax, Gentleman," moves me to compas- sion. The reading. of such books is like the forcing of a flower under unnatural conditions. The result- ing bloom will be beautiful beyond conception, undeniably "correct"... but oh, so fragile! So with the boy's mind.

Two classes of stories make a general appeal to boya...those deal- ing with school life, and those chock-full of adventure. To a cer- tain type, the soft, sob-invoking sentiment of a alum atery with a strong religious lesson Intertwined. may also appeal. A perusal of the books boys are reading will reveal an obvious lack of true colour, and

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3

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Some girls from a school for American young ladies in Florence were recently taken on an educativa tour to Venice. In one of her con We British are an island nation, versational lectures the mistress and the sea has always had a fas pointed out a fine specimen of some cination for us, even though, a phase of architecture, but mention- Individuals, we may prefer to ed that perhaps oven finer examples: make our own journeys by Iand might be acen in England. "Oh, I wherever possible. Miss Anne know," said one of her pupile," Trencer, the author of "The Sea in guess I've seen them at Westmin-

"Woll, perhaps," replied: English Literature," has, therefore, ator." suffered from no difficulty through finest examples are at Lincoln her instructress, "but I think the Lack of material, although her sur Cathedral." "Is there a Lincoln vey covers only the period from Cathedral in England?" "Cer Beowulf to Donne. It was not un-| tainly there is. One of the most warning that something in the com-

Loss of appetite is nature's first til later days that the novel, as we beautiful of all, I think."

"Say! plicated machinery of the system has know it, came into being, so one is Wasn't it just sweet of them to call gens wrong. And that something is

not surprised to find that poetry if after Him" exclaimed the girl. invariably the blood.

Good blood frequently an absolute disregard helps the digestive organs in their figures more prominently than prose for facts. Thus pine trees may be work by supplying them with the in her study of the subject. Such made to flourish in a story of the strength they constantly need. If prose writing, too, as was concerned. Australian goldfields, and one lad the blood is impoverished and weak with the sea had at first little in it of twelve may be made to

these organs, fail to receive this assistance and the first complaint they

of the element of romance; consist- power three hefty ruftions. But a make is to cease to call for food. Ing mainly of unadorned descrip- boy'a credulity is large, and he will Poor appetite never come alone. It tions of the experiences of seafar- pass these things (though not with is generally accompanied by In- ing man,

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