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BOOKS AND A BETTER DAY

There is another less couraging interpretation. Per- haps the new gravity, the turn- ing-away from romances that dull the sharp edges of reality to There is evidence that a books of serious discussion about generation which had long been men and events, means that accused of surrendering itself to there are men abroad and there flippancy and the pursuit of are possible events looming up pleasure has grown suddenly that are too ominous to be grave. The booksellers announce ignored. Anxiety, not a culti that their best-sellers last year vated studiousness, may be the were not novels, but three sobers reason why books about dicta- substantial works, namely, H. A tors, prophets, and politicians L. Fisher's "History of Europe," are being sought so eagerly. John Gunther's "Inside Europe," Perhaps the reader of to day and an introduction to mathe-studies history and politics for matics by Professor Lancelot the same urgent reason that the Hogben. In the same period two Zulu in his kraal studies the books of a religious character habits of the man-eating lion. had vast sales. Beverley Perhaps men and events have Nichols's "The Fool Hath Said" become more interesting only was one of the successes of the because, to-day, they threaten to year. Of HV. Morton's "In the become more dangerous. The Steps" more than 200,000 copies great Empires have come and have been sold. The editor of gone, and we have been studying the English Catalogue of Books, their rise and fall with renewed Mr. J. D. Stewart, declared that interest. We possess an ampler the book-reading public more knowledge with the fruit of than doubled in 1936. Bio-much labour in excavation and graphies have for years now in archaeological discoveries; provided Incrative trade, and men and women to-day are There seems, at first, to scamming the foundation facts. be no system in the pub A larger, better life may well be lic's choice in this field. The our portion with this interest in Irves of the ancients and mobooks of the more serious type; derns, of soldiers and priests, and beyond the clouds and dark- kings and reformers are all beness round our immediate ing rewritten and the demand horizon this sun is shining for a persists. Even novels continue brighter day.

to grow graver and longer. One

with fewer than 500 pages is a

short novel nowadays, and each Revivals Of Religion year produces several of about 1,000 pages.

If it be frue, as seems to be so Counter to this strange in- often argued, that religion is at crease in the appetite for books, a low ebb in Britain at the pre and the readers greater fasti-sent time, then the appeal of the diousness, runs the increasing Archbishop of Canterbury for 2 ardour of the censors. These revival of religion in modern life can seldom have been so vigilant should have some response. and so busy as in the very period was so before the Reformation, that has seen so interesting a and it has been so from time to change in the tastes of their vic-time since. G. W. E. Russell titres. Germany bans "Inside wrote that "all testimony seem Europe Francis Yeats-Brown to me to point to the fact that "I Saw For Myself" wins the towards the close of the compliment of being banned not eighteenth century religion was ony in Russia, but in Germany and Italy too. These are only some of the more sigmficant amples of the censors rece achievements. Each year Irish Free State and contend for the title censored among the de.. States. The Irish Free has banned books, for exam by Aldous Huxley, Ernest ingway, Jules Romains, Robert Graves. Australia Claim to have excluded not all these

strange, of course, dustry of readers.

should keep pace

by redoubling the prevent fres firming

nost extinct in the highest and west classes of English so- And Gladstone said that had heard "persons of great weight and authority such as Mr. Grenville and, I think, Arch- Howley ascribe the begin-

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