AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14226, 24 November 1909, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

The richer a man becomes in England the less does he care about study. von Herden., . t , . .

: Give us the luxuries of life, and we will* dispense with its necessaries.— Wendell Holmes.

You get no further by mere damnation; you must show the way to salvation. Gilbert Parker, M.P .

He is the best teacher of others who is best taught himself; that which we know and love we cannot but communicate.Dr. Arnold.

The lower levels of life in England are lower than in any other country that competes with us for industrial supremacy.— Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. ' '

Man is fully satisfied only -with what satisfies his soulonly With Character, and with an. endless chance for that character to grow.—Phillips Brooks.

What was the v reward , of . the Seaforth Highlanders for securing our predominance in Cape Colony ? They were deprived of the kilt.Lord Rosebery.. ' t

New clothes, we are told, act as a powerful moral and mental tonic. And one sees in this announcement all the elements of a new "treatment" for the, neurasthenic women of the day.World.

Our countrymen are under the delusion that the hotelkeeper is born, not made. We lack the technical _ institutions that exist abroad for giving instruction in the higher branches of the business.Daily Mail. " . ;• .;V.

A woman always acts by impulseand they have a clear-sighted instinct, -a mysterious and strange intuition, which cuddenly comes forth in a'surprising way, at the most unexpected times.—Elizabeth Martindale.

Coleridge created, not * metaphorically, but literally, a new atmosphere, outside the human world, which becomes as real as the air about us, and yet never loses its strangeness. To Coleridge,_ whatever appealed vitally. to his . imagination was . real.—Arthur Symorns.

You tell me that you can't do this, or that you don't want to do it. Well, if you can't or won't do it, all I have to say is that you are a hopeless case. Indeed, a person such as you was born old. Mephisto himself wouldn't bo able to do anything for you.Bart. Kennedy, in the World.

Much fine literature has been written under the name of criticism. But, for the critic to aim at making literature is to take off something from the value of his criticism as criticism. It may produce a work of higher value. . But it will cease to be, properly speaking,. what we distinguish as criticism. Arthur Symons.

Everybody reads novels nowadays, and " everybody" is quite right in doing- so. for the modern novel combines amusement and mental' exercise much more happily than any other literary method of expression. And, in spite of the fact that Miss Helen Mathers and " Frank Danby" have thrown up their sponges—l mean, thrown down , their pens—because novel-writing does not pay, there is as yet. no noticeable shortage in the supply of fiction, and Mr. Hall Caine still continues to occupy Greeba Castle. —Black and White.