BOOKS THEY LIKED BEST.
It is always interesting to know what -famous people read; and not long ago a number of well-known women were asked : ''Which- books did you love as a child?" Mrs. Asquith confessed that for interest she liked "The Little Duke," by . Charlotte Yonge; for instruction/ Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare. ; and for amusement, "The Fairchild Family." "When I was ill," she, said, "I always turned to Edwin ' Lear's ' Book', of Nonsense'." . ■. , '■'■.■/..: ■ Dame Clara. Butt waa fond of "Eric," by Dean Farrar, while Miss Ellen Terry named Shakespeare as her favourite author. She also liked " The Wide, Wide World," " Fables," and a story called " Mrs. Leicester's School" . Another actress. Miss Violet Vanbrugh, found greatest pleasure in reading "Auco in 1 Wonderland™ and Sir Walter. Scott's ."The Talisman.-' Her Bister, Miss' Irene Vanbrugh, is . numbered among ■ the admirers of "Grimm's Fairy Tales," , ,: . Mrs. Katherine Tynan, the writer of so many • charming Irish .; stories, preferred Hans Andersen's , "Fairy Tales" arid " The .Wide, Wide, World." Miss Ethel Irving' read, an 3, loved everything "by Dickens.' '•■ ■ ' : l .' ■';'...- - .."' ; r •',".:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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