READING FOR BOYS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21387, 1 February 1935, Page 21

READING FOR BOYS

I fault found with present books 1 PROI-j;s,SOU (iII.BKKT MI'URAY'S CKfTK ISM •rs'-v '.; i ..A v .r>< t( r .»: jikki .) LONDON, January 5. Prnfrisi,] Gilbert Murray, at a '"tiling organised by the League ' Nations I'niun Education Com- | r utcf. <M ||teiffci the books popular j| L , >a j t j Nvas cjliito right lucre ,iK,!|i c j | )L . a jot Qj' adven"''li bloodshed in boys' books, Uk-v wore mostly based on the ! ,° rv !t * ; var ;uK ' the killing of lorfurious, and frightfully "-"i.'ur-ig foreigners, with all the odds f;r. ijur. i • tin- histories and text- !;.• v;i;d. "How extraodinr'^' nl : 'Ho brave each nation itj-cln How many victories • has tij Ks ciedit. and how singu-■-ny fr- w defeats:'' ri ofe;•>(,)' Murray said that teachid ihc K_in.(,ls of Germany, ■■■ l!e !'e ~i tlie best headmasters «\p Tc no ' v celling bootlaces in the vvas a strange mixture of delusions, ail tending "nscioiislv or unconsciously to the glorification of blood and veneeance. t tiiis madness spreads, obviously 1 iurope is ruined, and it is very important that we should notice that powi signs of spreading." he fed A friend of mine m an importto 11 njvei ii y in iho East of Europe .-iskH what sort of mternattraining his students received J- 1 " simply, 'My students are ' r,,!r H t" lif rr.'id dnrjs'."