‘LITERATURE AND LIFE’

Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 2

‘LITERATURE AND LIFE’

W.E.A. LECTURE. On Saturday evening, in ihe Upper Oliver Hall, Otago t’niver.dly, Alias M. If., M. King, principal of Iho Girls’ High, (School, delivered a lecture under the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Association on ■Literature and Life: Ihe Heritage of tho English Glassies,’ As Mr \V. Emlev explained, the course, of which this wav tho first lecture, had been organised in orihT that the members of the various classes might come to know ono another hotter, and that means of recreation might ho provided giving a change from the dii'icuU- studies of the weak rreroalran that still ..plight contain in itself mnltor of ie;\l benefit- and culture to all concerned. The general public would bo most welcome, and it was hoped that manv who did not attend tho .association’s cl esse.; would : -(, an invitation to lie present at- some of tin: -'U'cu'ary lecture?. .Miss I'iivg illustrated happily the close ve’aimnGiii' hadv.ran literature and human rinv-nav’s, dealing particularly with the three periods of literature that gave tho jinti.-n anil tho world lounyson and Brr.wnbm. Shakespeare. Milton, and the .anth-v-i.-vd vie Tin of the English Bible. Wo wen tv-d'v enormously intent upon ediicMii-n (she said), mid onr p.tienlinn was ilbv’-b'd omissioiis'y and universally toward? ihe arid ■vemont of something create 1 ' in human broth.-.■bond, higher in human cal'Md "inure 1 1. than hm: ever boon agh’revH P.-.g re. We were convinced that to (his a: hievem. nl ‘'dilation wa? the key. Bat it 'Vi.obi- not W the mineafinyi thatbad ebt-'inod in the past. Tbr-y_ were not gf.'i:-.' t' l aim at- turning people info encyelov.aT’!-■ or db G-mai’ics. They wore i-oiog to elm at 'mW’imr people lo live nv'"v be- :dv am! widely end nobler than W,-r I, ; > liv’d 1>- bare. The givot-wt in-Brmn-mi!: and hamiTM tool for Mils pnr-elav-ks. Tn ht era tore lay ib--. in.-.;,-!,-; whmvhv ro'irdc could he b'’,,i;:’M into livhm '■>!'■ "-‘t with tHr high-,--q er ! p 1 ;, .-m-e bad prodneod. bi!s”:.fa”'", properly used, would enable n.-sn'e lo vs'--;L and in enjov as filer never had worked and -•ijnve'l before. If this end wm t<> he ■‘ehieved. however, if would he ~r, i-.- to •no -reed on repy iiiPVo’i'lll lino.-' f .-m those feßowed in the pad. The ,ovrit 11-’l’ig v -M v ’i ■ i:'r r--I;■■') r-V Spinl, "d‘v fai'-ii, Fdn-’r’itinii.’l! Ten’ll I.:’, were not t-i !•-■- i-naan'r-'t bv nen-epiai’es in exatnin."fj,, 11 -. ,Mi;-s Kin-' enforced the mnneinV fbat ip 1 ’ 1 1 i>i re was to ho fonnd the r-rpi-enr the highest achievemejif. of mao. ami 'i: the i lassies sr.b'it eonld meet with sirnii, ei’ininiuning m Ihe higliestplanes, e.T’h neper'l ion rnanimr a harvest froi" fhole Mt.’it- w-mf before, arid leading over forward to higher arhiovemenf in the genoratl-in-; to poree. A henrtv rot f ‘ of thanks was accorded to th“ leelnver. CTiivf-in.siH'ctor d’Hining. in ninvii'g this, imfeiT-'il to the neglect of literature bv the lore! AV.E.A. in Ihe oast, and evoi’w-rcil fhe [mpo tliat. A 1 i:;? Kind’s lecture woidd I'ear fruit.