“WANDER-YEARS OF READING.”
The years between the ages of 16 and 30 were the “wander-years of reading,” the marvellous and even beautiful years of adventure and discovery in literature and in life, said Mr Ernest A. Savage, of Edinburgh, in his presidential address to the British Library Association. Librarianship had a comparatively easy task with those young people, for they were best left alone with the books that they needed, the books that some of .them came to love. The reading of the wander-years was aimless, no doubt, but it was not valueless. Let selection be made by librarians with vision and a fresh memory of the days when they first came under the spell of literature. Let them throw off the boredom of the professional critic. The assumption that young men and women no longer enjoyed the wanderyears of reading, and wanted nothing but light literature, was contrary to the facts.
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Southland Times, Issue 22956, 31 July 1936, Page 6
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