[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas...Methodically building up a personal library following the guidelines of Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste. Has read the Bible, Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing), Pope, Tennyson, Masefield, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Emerson, William Morris, most of Ruskin, Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol), The Cloister and the Hearth, GK Chesterton, Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Man and Superman, The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet, The Devil's Disciple, You Never Can Tell, Socialism and Superior Brains, Fabian Essays, An Unsocial Socialist, The Irrational Knot), John Galsworthy, about a dozen books by H.G. Wells and perhaps twenty by Bennett, Sidney and Beatrice Webb's Industrial Democracy and other books on trade unionism, Sir Oliver Lodge, Edward Carpenter's Towards Democracy and The Intermediate Sex, J.A. Hobson and Alfred Marshall on Economics and Plato's Republic'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent Print: Book
'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of Poetry"
T.C. Eliott from Chesterton's "Lepanto"
Mrs Evans some verses by Colin D. B. Ellis
R. H. Robson from J. C. Squires "Birds"
D. Brain from Noyes' "Torch Bearers"
C. I. Evans from Thos Hardy
G. Burrow poems by his brother
F. E. Pollard from Siegfried Sassoon
Mrs Pollard from W. Watson's "Lakeland"
C. E. Stansfield from Rupert Brooke
A. Rawlings from E. V. Lucas & Lang Jones'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: T.C. Elliott Print: Book
'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call
on a friend. As I entered the building a taxi stopped at the door and I found G. K.
C. [G. K. Chesterton] by my side.
"I have half an hour for my article," said he, rather breathlessly. "Wait here till I
come back."
The first sentence was addressed to himself, the second to the taxi-driver, but as
we were now in the office the driver heard nothing. Chesterton called for a back file
of the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics], sat down, lit a cigar and began to read
some of his old articles. I watched him. Presently he smiled. Then he laughed. Then
he leaned back in his chair and roared. "Good - oh, damned good!" exclaimed he. He
turned to another article and frowned a little, but a third pleased him better. After
a while he pushed the papers from him and sat a while in thought.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gilbert Keith Chesterton Print: Newspaper
