AMERICAN SCHOLAR'S VISIT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1945, Page 9

AMERICAN SCHOLAR'S VISIT.

Distinguished American scholars have from time to time visited New Zealand and have done valuable work in stimulating interest in the special field of endeavour. Dr. Henry SeideJ Cahby, who is due to lecture at Victoria University College on Friday, should be no exception. He will talk on "The Foundations of National Culture." Dr. Canby is well qualified for such a task. He has been called by an American critic "a typical scouting reporter of the movements of the stream of literature. ... In command of the history of literature and in the knowledge of contemporary letters he has no equal in America today.4' The main theme running throughout his many books has been the study of literature seen against the social and intellectual background of a developing country, which perhaps found its best expression in his classic study of Thoreau, published in 1939.

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Boot Trades Federation in WelJißgton:—President, Mr. J. P. Coulter (Hamilton); vice-president, Mr. E. Earnshaw (Wellington); secretary, Mr. G. Shields (Wellington); treasurer, Mr, C,R. Perkins'(Wellington); committee, Messrs. C. Shanley (Auckland), G. Bennett OChristchurch), C. Sieversen, M. Hore, J. T. Shapcott, D. J. Weekly (Wellington).