PEN VERSUS SWORD
Having provided one of the happiest: autobiographies with his "Life is j Sweet, Brother," Mr. Bernard Darwin, j the golfing correspondent of "The i Times," has prepared a companionable] anthology of personal preferences in! prose and verse, published by the \ Oxford University Press under the title j "Easy Going." There is nothing war- 1 like in it. "I have rather assumed,"; writes the compiler, "that in such times we like to be transported to fields other than those of battle, beneath untroubled skies. War will never drive great literature out of the world, but j great literature might drive war for a while out of the head, and I can personally testify to the merits of *Guy Mannering' and 'David Copperfield,* punctuated by bombs in a cellar." j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 15
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131PEN VERSUS SWORD Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 15
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