ECONOMY AND THE LIBRARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16524, 20 April 1918, Page 7

ECONOMY AND THE LIBRARY.

To the Editor of the "Tlmaru Herald-' T °o ,/Iyoul- very able leading artido ia & * l Vc Y r e Uy's "Herald" deaUng ss™' **sr oft; °'toi».roit books 1 feel 1 am not. only voicing my own sentiments but those ot the general nXic in utt,erin« a strong protest against cutting off the supply oibookb at the library not only for the.tone being hut fop a year! The proposal that for a whole year the readers o a library should hrowse on the* books already on the shelves,, would mean condemning these unfortunates to a I literary backwater not to he contemplated wth any degree of patience, and .would completely-bar them from any ' Fhare in the current literature of the div and-its paramount interest—the , v 'ar—which has evolved a literature, as I all' great wars have done, of its day and for its day. Who for example will read with the same interest as at the present time, su.ch,b"oks as the lepy£ Diaries of th* Great War, 'J Accuse,'' and "Because I am a Uerman.-" Such hooks belong to the war period: now is the psychological time to read th«m. not a ven.r hence. Ar» students of science and those* in hooks of travel too, to lag behind for a yenr, to Ruit th« netty economv of tW m"rnci<wl n' l m : iii i tr;iW<; of " cm all n ? I fe»l very strongly on tili,is siihjtvt and therefore make n~ anoloey for t.respassing on your space.—l am, etc., I A BOOK LOVER,