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Show STILL ALIVE People like to keep up with the times. Consequently when they find time to read they choose the latest production of a recognized re-cognized modern author and go to work on it. However, if they continue to read the so called literature of Dur times, they find that a time comes when they put down the book and wonder why they feel grimy. They begin to feel a distinct dis-tinct distaste for the "truth" about human nature, politics, marriage, mar-riage, and industry as revealed by th psychological novelists who apparently have found from some secret and omniscient source that man and the world is rotten and there is no hope anywhere. The reaction takes two forms. Either the reader quits reading read-ing entirely, or he looks for some of the "old stuff." The latter is the wiser. A good dose of Stevenson or Conrad is refreshing and cleansing. cleans-ing. Here are authors that have something to talk about besides the back bedroom. They have a story to tell and they tell it with the art of the story toller who knows his business. They iare still alive in spite of the salacious competition of the moderns; and they will continue to live when the moderns are completely com-pletely and happily forgotten. |