SEX INTEREST IN NOVELS
PRINCE GEORGE’S CRITICISM. * Speaking at the annual dinner of the National Book Trade Provident Society at London, Prince George criticised the sex interest of many modern novels. ‘‘l am sure," he remarked. "Dr. Johnson would have quickly sickened, as I have sickened, of novels which only exist on a disproportionate interest in sex.
"There Is no more workmanlike product than British hooks. As to their contents—well, English literature stands beyond question as one of the great literatures of the world, and I do not think Its famous tradition.-has ruffered any decline to-day.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18622, 28 April 1932, Page 3
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96SEX INTEREST IN NOVELS Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18622, 28 April 1932, Page 3
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