STILL HARD AT IT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 12

STILL HARD AT IT

AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN BOUGH” (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) i( LONDON, 29th October. “The Golden Bough” is such an established twelve-volume classic that many people do not realise its author is stiil with us. Sir James Frazer, who has dedicated his long life to the study cf primative folk lore and superstition, has special rooms pet apart .for him at Cambridge where he is a figure of distinguished honour, and his literary activities show no sign of diminution even at the advanced age of eighty-two. At the present moment he has another volume m the press, though one has already been published during the present year, and a third is in advanced preparation with a view to printing before the year ends. lie lias turned out millions of words, not of ephemeral trash but learned research, and be writes every word in his fine legible handwriting. He belongs to a generation that never accepted the servile tyranny of the typewriter, 'Once you’ fall under the latter’s sway it ip impossible to think with a pen.