GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 6 December 1938, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

RUGBY, December 5. A lively, controversy has been aroused in the press by statements by Sir Darcy Thompson, Professor of Natural History at St. Andrews, and Sir Charles Grant Robinson, principal of' the Birmingham University, suggesting that fhe younger generation of students were unacquainted with the classics of English literature. “The . Times” publishes opinions of a number of librarians, whose evidence, while not immediately relevant to the complaints of the eminent university teachers, do at least conflict with any idea of general decline of public interest in literary masterpieces of other times.

In the case of Dean Swift’s "Gulliver’s Travels”, one of the books mentioned in Sir Darcy Thompson’s indictment, copies in a leading library in one London borough have each been borrowed more than 50 times in the year. At Croydon it is reported to be in constant demand.