CRITIC OF THRILLERS
TILTING AT WINDMILLS SYDNEY, September 3. The New Zealand delegate at a conference this week who inveighed against the popularity of thrillers is hut the latest evangelist in a line that goes as far back as Juvenal and even to Ezekiel, says the “Sydney Morning Hei’ald” commenting on the address by. Mr W. J. Scott to the New Education Fellowship conference. In spite of mystery and detective stories since Poe and Doyle and of Westerns since Owen Wister, there must occur, naturally,' much' trash, hut when she leading statesmen and scholars of the English-speaking world confess their addiction to such fare there is evidently more to it than is dreamt of in this critic’s philosophy. To deny that Wilkie Collins or A. E. W. Mason wrote literature in this line of country is to tilt at windmills. If such is reading, fit only for butcher boys, then '
at heart we are all butcher boys, that is to say, human.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 277, 4 September 1946, Page 5
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