A NOVEL OF INDIA.
FIFTY YEARS OF LITERATURE. PRINCE CONSORT'S LETTERS. On page one "Cyrano" pays a tribute to Augustine Birrell, statesman and essayist. Is it poißible that a complete artist is neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but the enemy of both?— Mr. G. W. Stonier. Mr. H. G. Wells, at the last annual dinner of the London district of the Institute of Journalists, described how ihe occupied his mind while suffering from influenza with the relation of literature to journalism, a thing which no one with a temperature under 100 would have. thought of attempting. "I came to the conclusion," he said, "that literature was copy delivered too late for use. Then I thought it might be copy so written that you could not insert cross words to make it into journalism. Then I thought that it might bo the difference between wit and wisdom, but at length came to the conclusion that literature was journalism without its false teeth."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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160A NOVEL OF INDIA. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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