BITS FROM NEW BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 4 (Supplement)

BITS FROM NEW BOOKS.

Such questions si "What's your father?" "Who's your guv'nor 1 " are not asked in Australian circles. The descendants of pioneers do hot deal in that kind of unblushing sndbbery~(" The Human Pedagogue.")":'-' The English may liko the type called fluffy, but. the French never. A woman should always look as though the cat had licked her—"(" Nina.") "To trust is the great thing," said Andrew'. -'-'Awa' wi' all safeguards—burn -your' boats —live for ideas —act out your ideas—trust—don't bo afraid! Ah hate the cunriin* hangin' on wi' one hand and reach in* "out m* the other. Nothing that man or devil can do can break you if ■your whole body, soul, and spirit are one idea "—("The Infinite Shoeblack.") On such detached occasions she felt a human/ intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. That He had a sense of humour she well knew; if he had not be would never be able to enduro the eternal conceit and self-absorption of human boings.— ("The Old Ladies.") " If a decent book dares to put. its nose inside a.class room, it is straightway hoisted, on. to the operating table to be hacked about and analysed till you hate the very., sight of it. And they call that literatu.ro!"—("The Human Pedagogue.") What of Freud? . ... He claims to have discovered new facts about the pl.met "V.enus, and the whole world is flocking to; look, through his telescope. Yet it is the same old planet, hut it appears to be swimming in a new light, due to a cunning change in the lenses. And unless you, too, gaze and admire, you label yourself out of date. He has mado sex modish, in thort.—"Nina.") •The duty-of every man, with love of country in his heart, is to fit himself to play a far-reaching, noble and adequate part in the next war—from a distance at which brains will really tell. If others have to fall -in the front line, drop a tear, good citizen, or if yon feel so disposed, drop two tears. But, for the sake of your country, and its final victory in the niggle, see to it that you are not the one who falls—("Unparliamentary Papers.") What a wonder of competence Eva was! Only it wag a pity she let the children get on her nerves so. Lester never doubted that his wife loved her children with nil the passion of her fiery heart, but. there were times when it occurred to him that t-:he did not like them verv well—not for long at a. time, anyhow.—(" The Homemaker.")..., In the war tho bound a becoming white handkerchief round her head, and wore- a I strained expression to match her disguise— I the expression of one who never for a ] moment.forgot her dear ones at the front, ™. n "T- ? -*', mo,nent forgot that she J^J^M ; Pip 6rß and » *M&& •■ -■' ■. ■■■ - ■' - *•» Bth^;''! : :;. : -'r-. : -' ;-<V'.