Sleepy-Eye Books

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 13

Sleepy-Eye Books

\- A THE list of hooks -which Dean Inge recommended, to tho. Library Association at London as aids to sufferers from insomnia is not a good one, states tho New York Sun. Few readers,, whether wakeful or not, wbiild'willingly pick up “Society in Eomo under the Caesars/’ “Christian Mysticism/' “Speculum Animae,” “Types. 1 , of Christian Saintliness/’ “The Philosophy of Plotinus’’ or “The Eton Latin Grammar,” which are the hooks mentioned by the Dean. •Surcease'from insomnia comes from the .pages ,of it book which is just on the shadowy line that divides the Teadablo/m>ni '' the unreadable, not from a boo.k that will drive the ordinary reader ,away by its opening para-, graph:.,,. The books mentioned by the D.fiW, would be laid by s6,"insomniac and' tile sufferer would fie reused to morc intolerable jtletfncss. , ' It'is a book which stupefies and lulls the senses that is needed, a book that contains paragraphs that can be read over two 6r three times without convincing the reader that he lias read them a single time, a book that fails, by tho seanfest margin, to hqld tho interest. Every reader must compilq his own list. No general prescription will do. ,