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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14221, 12 February 1917, Page 5

I -< Writing -on war books in thei Daily' .Chronicle,, Professor A7F.>Pollarduprofeasor of English history •in the "Uni.versity of London, «ays:— "lfc-js'not'be. l !yond the boUHds of possibility that within a, -.ceiwflr^ Hhe books -, tlie great war, ijs origin, and ..its • coiisp-. i f_uences in fbellj&ereiit aiid^.ifeulri*. Jaiids, .wilkhave exdlSdad in . iiiinil^r the bdoks fiwjnished on^ll^ olbh^subifccts putHogetl|er; andiSlredy tWb critic ip like one wjiof WRtchea^^^eiiwwT fall, from an oak; and ytteiea,Ai^aetect 't^ie .fittest to t'yi^e. Thet*"is, v- however, greater in-'^XM^tj.fwnr.the war -than in Adorns, and , those that come first will have the largest circulation, while those that tarry, will be better worth reading. When we| get the final and official history of the war,' only students will want . to read it."