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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17097, 21 February 1916, Page 8

Most people, writes Mr J. Squire, in the '" Xew Statesman." especially nonbookish people, are very reluctant to throw away anything that looks like a book. In the most illiterate houses that one knows every worthless or ephemeral volume that is bought finds its way to a shelf and stays there. In reality it is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is printed. ' It is positively a public duty to destroy I it. Destruction not merely makes : more room for new books and saves one's heirs the trouble of sorting out : the rubbish or storing it; ft may alsO ' prevent posterity from making a fool of itself. Wa may be sure that if we j do not burn, sink or blast all the • superseded editions ot" Bradshaw, two, hundred years hence some collector will ' be specialising in old railway time- •' tables, gathering, at immense cost, a complete series, and ultimately leaving j his "treasures"' to a public institu- 1 tion, .1