This book, which (s modelled along the lines of the "Oxford English Dic~ {ionary," which the compiler rightly says has been invaluable alike as a model and a source of information, fof stich value and importance that it {Is dimeult to see how any writer can possibly be without it, It contains only proverbs of wide English usage, find when the book is considered it is Femarkable that there should be so many of them, In this connection Interesting foreword Is written by Janet E, Heseltine, in which she points out thay there ere originally two sources of proverbial wisdom One was the common man, {rom whom came proverbs of distilled exe perience, such ay "A bird in the hand worth two in the bush other Was the Wise man oF oracle, whose utterances were the result of reflect tion and were received as rules life by the folk who had neither time nor capacity to meditate upon funda mental truths. Though it is claimed that they are English proverbs, they are In murly instances only ssu becatise Of their widespread adoption from other tongues.
Many of them in their original form, und even ay presented inn this work, would not be understood by the average reader, Thus who, days, would appreciate your" errand, but drink Would." ay referring to people who sleeveless errand into 3 house ere they know people are at din Feads that Louise Belle! spent. eight years in the French penal settlement for New Caledonia, and came back to id France at the end of it not one shade less ready 10 risk hor freedom again for the sake of the untouchables of her day—the workers in factory and farm, the convict in" prison, the' Woman labouring in subshuman eon ditions in the slums, Finally, Margaret Guldsinith sieceps through the story of Rosa Luxem= burg, the most inteltixent, purposeful land powerful personatily" amongst these," Not one of the promin political figures of our, time shown such acumen, such integrity fand such courage as this woman. If you cannot believe me, then read ihe story of her life, read what she wrote and check the facts and figures iny means you can find—only do not dismiss) my statement as. a falsity' off-hand; would only be wronging youre felt "more "than ne else.
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