New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 5

e S — YALE AUTHORITY RIDIGULES NOVELS No Brain Material in Them, Prof. Brooke Tells Hi-Y Club “No one can rcmmmend ‘The best hooks to read’—you must make your own selection to meet yoyr needs,” said Professor Tucker Brooke, of the department of English literature, Yale university, to the members of the High School club at ‘the regular meeting of the club at the Y, M. C. A. last night, He said, “Select books you will need in the future for reference and com- panionship. Make your own list of books, best adapted to your needs in school, business or profession. There | is no need for one to collect sets or | volumes of a known author and| laboriously read the entire set fmm! the first to the last volume. “In collecting hooks you are ing personal history for later We all tire of reading a series of hooks by one author. In your de- veloping years, use your collective in- stinet in accumulating hooks deriv- ing enjoyment from this instructive | hohby as well as valuable possessioi. “Because of well organized and de- veloped business enterprises hook | publishers overload the public with | cumbersome volumes of dead material. Don't let any bookseller tell you to read a selective set, Make your own list of books best adapted to your| present and future needs. il your mind with book learning and you will become an intelligent speaker and thinker, “There is no use to be a ready speaker unless you have a well filled mind to draw from. Many folks are therely chatterboxes dwelling on common oceurrences and become casily talked out in a short time 2 o says talki toge mak- | years. writing and reading begins to reading, the I wholesome books your mi think along the same channels of the author, you will become an intelligent | conversationalist ,and later a capable | writer of importar T don't know of any more important thing you can do than that of book selection for | your own library ' “Then again, to possess more honu} than you are able to read makes you | lazy in mind, Therefore, don't per- | mit your library to ‘w(mnl' too large, Read every hook you purchase first | before you buy another, Also avoid | purchasing books in sets as advertised | by clever publishers Another prob- | lem in book reading and buying is ! the American popular novel “Too many people read novels and send them to the scrap heap after finishing the story. 1 don't believe | the American novel gives any brain | material outside of the story and plot and picturing of life as it is today, People buy many times be ise of the | lurge resale and circulation of our | novels of today. Stories are ouslvnt! to read but they don't interest “No value lies in novels and| reading them to excess is to be| avoided, Of course on the other| hand novels please and amuse the in- dividual. Sometimes the effects of Real Money Saversfor Wednesday at 36Main St.0ppositeE.Main St | books. \p.lln‘l folks are good to read and col- NEW: BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923, | Eight Million Pies! | | How's this for a stack of pumpkins? Over in Camden, N. J., there’s a cannery where many thousand pumpkins every year die a horrible death. This shows this year’s death house with in- mates patiently awaiting their turn to come under the knife.| There’s enough here for eight million pies. S —————————— | its reading are good, perhaps leaving | look up his family and personal his-| a moral, but as a rule noyels are only | tory, and I also find much more en- | [filled with excitement and only hasten ! joyment in this particular book be- | the reader to the conclusion of the|cause of the sentiment connected with story as the writer pictured the story | it. to end. “I have “Novels are read and are useless books in London. There I found some the collector and don't help his|of the largest second hand stores in It is quite as bad to have the world, The average Englishman| too many books as not enough. No|prefers his books second hand. Many one can get along today without|times you will find books fifty or a| They are the working tools of | hundred years old and these are valu- | ion. | able from a financial view point. to accumu-} “When yvou acquire a new book al- | > libraries of their own, but| ways put your name and address on No matter how many | the fly lea Another point I would may have there comes a|like to suggest, underline every must consult the public | sage that g to you, and mark book purchased most of my| to collection. & man's pro “Too many people try late sadly books one lar, fall, pas- | Appeals up time when ibrary vith s and book good of th ry and comr beeome companionable | information wili of benefit and can be read every day without|haps to some becoming tiresome. Also try to get a!| “There large variety of books for your per-|cannot b We solml collection. In doing so you will [all can have our own libraries big or | get a better angle on life as it was in| small, Collection of books is a hob- | the h.-:mmng through the middle|by to be cherished and I do not know | | ages and Jife as we live it today.|of anything else I would rather do."| Books dealing in history and anclent| Anthony A. Dorbuck announced languages arc neccssary for your col- | that Senator (. M. Bakewell of New| lection, | Haven will address the club Monday “A personal diary is of most value, | next. | Here he can jot down occurrences as | they happen in his daily life to 4 later, deriving much enjoyment | opinio This per- brary Books of lect. Th poetry are to co st you he later, is no reason why every one 4 collector of books. 4 'EACELSIOR SPRINGS DEAL nd profit in watching the individual development, Diaries of famous de- IS ADJUDGED T0 BE FAIR, lect, Record your daily doings xml you will find the dia the most important books in your collec- tion and of most profit to you in years to one of Property Sold By K. L. Morse Was Disposedd of At Proper Figure, come, Board Decided “You do not have books for your collection lectors prefer second stores for their markets, “Personally I much rather pur to purchase new Most col-| ommittee of three named t6 malke hand book i 1 ppraisement of the Excelsior Springs property sold by K. L. Morse, | Missouri republican leade to the chase my book from a sccond hand|government for a veterans' hospital, stall and find the former owner's au-eaply today unanimously upheld the tograph giving me an opportunity to|gransaction as fair to both parties The decision was announced at the conclusion of am executive | which followed a hearing that extend- |ed past midnight. Mr., Morse was on {the stand Jast night'and explained in detail the sale his old homestead and additional property for which the | overnment paid him $116,000, The commission held that the deal was untainted by the remotest desire on the part of either party to take an unfair advantage. It recommend- ed that the contract between the gov Morse not be disturbed s appointed to after Morse The | re-apprais | offered before t gating the commission the property testifying Washington nate committee investi- veterans' bureau, to refund difference botween the price paid thim and a reasonable value as deter- was in SPECIALS=7 Lean Fresh Shoulders, Ib 12&0 Fresh Groun Hamburg 3 lbs, 250 Lean Boiling Beef ...... o 8¢ | mined by one man to be named by the government, another by himself, land the third to be selected by the | first two members Members of the | Colonel A. H | representing H. Parker Missouri Morse, and W. C. TO 12:30 P. M. Fancy Maine Potatoes . Evaporated Milk Large Florida Oranges . commission are Washington Jones r of the appointed by Missourd state 3 for 250 dol.zsc the government formerly a memb egislature Trwin SPECIALS FOR FRESH PORK TO ROAST ALL DAY rctually 15¢ Se¢ session | % SANTA CLAUS SAYTS— SHOP TOMORROW AT ‘THE FAIR’ Gifts that are a pleasure to give. 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