AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13844, 2 September 1908, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Lkisurb is,' the parent of charm. —Vernon Lee. ] .. . - True life is to be alive in every fibre to the divine in all things.John Masefield. Most people run as they read nowadays, and books must be small and light.—lllustrated London News." . The press never sleeps. It knows neither night nor day, Sunday nor week-day, Bank Holiday nor working day. All is ever at feverish heat.Liverpool Post. 1 However clever a boy may be, if he is lacking in discipline and character lie can never inspire others with confidence, nor can he succeed in life.—Lord Roberts. Our present-day poets are born for anthologies. Theirs are mostly brief things, little poignant things, full of tender apprehension of' life's transience, full of dreams, and roses. Academy. There is not much joy in the gamble. called theatrical management. But it is a. great thing to be indifferent to fate, and to maintain a happy x countenance in the face of defeat.—Beerbohm Tree. , U The strength of socialism does not lie. in argument or scientific analysis Of "conditions that in truth are inevitable, but in a perfectly legitimate discontent with many of the incidents of civilisation.—Specta- j tor. \ .( _ Hospitality is an art of which the English people have the secret. England makes her visitors understand, with the delicacy of the old nobility, the price of its friendship and the value of its esteem.—L'Opinion,' Paris. ■ " As long as aviators-consider the wind their enemy,, their aeroplanes must be re-" garded as being scientifically defective. Birds utilise the wind when in the air and travel without even "flapping their wings.Eclair Paris. - ; * • / There are regiments of young men, fresh, from school and college, who, knowing ranperes, ohms, and volts, can tell you all about the lights in your house, but not one word about the lights in the. sky.— American Review." Mr. Churchill is our only American novelist who does things as weir as writes of them. Ifc is not so long ago that, he was running for Governor of his State, and "ne still may hope that in this field of activity his nam© will be as known as that of his English equivalent.—Town Topics, New York. It is great wisdom to proportion . our esteem to the nature of the thing; form that way. things will not be under-valued, so neither will they engage us above heir intrinsic worth. If, we suffer little things tohave great hold upon us, we shall be as much transported for them as if they deserved it.William Penn. Every theory finds am advocate in some contemporary novelist: Socialism in Anatole Fiance; nationalism in Maurice Banes; clericalism in Bourjjet; ' provincialism in Bazin; femininisni in Prevost, while the i claims of various isms are impartially dis--j cussed in the pages of Ec'louard Rod. — " French Novelists of To-day,," '