Viscount ey On Modera Disadvs mages wood Lord Grey said he thought Eng= iskimen were putting the pleasure reading more and more la Jeopardy. "Tt wax becoming more Wifiewlt to acquire the habit of reading. The motor-ear was alto-wether unfavourable to it, the telephone was decidedly a distdvantuge, with its practice of mincing time frogs Wireless: wai another modern invention which was making it more difficult for sue coeding generations to require the habit. " Picture papers were a fur~ ther disadvantage, and they lessened not only reading, but also thought. ulview, Lord Grey suse ug reading beforehand. Have always in mind the three or four books that should be read.
Literary reviews recalled old books and suggested new ones, Of the pleasures of reading, poorly, of course, came first and. highest. Besidew the joy in rhythm, the music of words, and imagery, there was great Uhought which not only stirred the intellect, but roused the emotions.
AL one tine, after effies, he had retired for id had cespeure's plays. The produced of inevadible vane mate him foot one in the room. with Nie playwright, as though he wore with something supernatural, 'On another cession he found in a volume a list of questions which John Morley had answered, and against that of "Who is' your favourite poet?" Morley had written Wordsworth. He would have written the same name. Why? Because of the poct's strength, and ape, because of the feeling, Wordsworth Drought to people as though he re-venied to them some of their own experiences. It any render fully appreciated Wordsworth he ied Land Grey spoke of novels, which put next to poctey. Tt might be thought, he said, fiat love, passion, was essential to the great~ est novel Austen and Thackeray" had" proved that not tru. When reading Jane Austen felt she was the great novel writers, the gr placed her in the first rank.
OF humorous books he felt the humour should be and. clean. Of biographies he would Jquoty an opinion he had read and agreed wilh, that those of literary men were the most, teresting, those and those of
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