The Booklovers' Corner

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21478, 29 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Booklovers' Corner

In any • balanced civilisation leisure will inevitably turn to books. But, many a good book, many a good play 1S spoiled for us by the delusive theory that the new leisure must have tomtoms and saxaphones. The purveyors of our amusement have been misled by the case with which excitement works. Crowds rise to it noisily; but there are other crowds not satisfied, and not ao evident. We have learned to its last vibration the technique of excitement. 1 hat is not enough. If wo are to fill leisure with books, we must be better psychologists. The demand for jazz is satisfied, but because some millions escaping from the industrial machine need only titillation, are there to be 110 cakes and ale for those of quieter digestion? They may bo millions, too. Instead of the movie hurricane blowing rain, snow, dust, heroes and heroines through a crescendo of action, wo wish to see in soma deep orchard of experience the fruit ripening for us on the tree of life. If we are to fill leisure with books we must be better psychologists. ' .—New York Eoviow of Literatures

LEISURE AND JAZZ

So often when we think we are barring other peoplo out. we are only barring ourselves in.—David Grayson. So often when we think we are barring other people out we are only barring ourselves in.—David Grayson. T As distinct from man, woman is tho creaturo to whom tho race is more than the individual, tho being to whom tho future is greater than the present. —Kidd s " Science of Power." Nobody can get more out of life than life can produce—yet nearly everybody thinks he can. The public never seems to learn that it cannot live beyond its income—havo more than it produces. —Henry Ford. Tho idealist, if tho world lets him alone, keeps his childhood until he dies. He only loses it if some great emotional tempest ravages his being to the depths.—Mary Webb's " Houso in Dormer Forest."