LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Stray Leavos. Revioivs of several novels held over till next 1 week. ' A woli-known local bookseller tolls mo that ho anticipates a record Christmas trade, despite tlia elections. "Liber" sincerely liopes tliid may prove to bo tlio -case. A treinendotis amount of useless rubbish is no doubt bought and given away every Christmas gift season, but a good' book—a good edition of u really good author—is always welcome in iiii educated household, and no better ' Christmas gift could he chosen. But discrimination, I warn you, is necessary. Don't givo unreadable books, simply because they aro prettily "got up." Try and think of the literary tastes of tlio recipient, and give liim or her—it is, as if. properly should be, with most young people, "her"—a book which can not only bo road once but one which to which lie (or she) can always return with renewed pleasure. For instance— but no, like Mr. Jinglo on a certain memorable occasion, "I will not presume to dictate." lU'cent Home papers announco tlio death of Professor' F. W. Moorman, Professor of English Language at the Leeds University. Professor Moorman, who was drowned whilst; bathing, was the compiler of an excellent littlo anthology of "Yorkshire Dialect Poems" (Sedgwick and Jackson, 3s. (id.), and moro recently published swno original poems, also in tlio broad Yorkshire vernacular, from his own pOu.