Harvard Books for Light Reading

MANY undergraduates will remember with considerable pleasure the visit of H. M. Tomlinson to Cambridge in the Fall of 1927. The occasion of Mr. Tomlinson's coming to Harvard was an address in the Union on the general topic of literature. "Between the Lines" is the reprint of that address.

Mr. Tomlinson's little book will appeal to many college men; there is a sincere and enthusiastic attitude towards life and letters in its pages that is certain to make it most enjoyable reading. Of his craft, this man, who has been often compared with Conrad, says, "Literature is different. It is not a profession, if we mean by that a means to food and shelter. It is, in a vital sense, a profession of faith; and it is well known that a man's faith evades every new concrete image to which he would reduce it. The most we can say of his faith is that it is expressed in his work, if his work so interests us that we attach importance to its implications."

One can certainly say for "Between the Lines" that it is a truly beautiful expression of faith, and many college men will long remember the author's consul, "You have to set your own course, steer your ship by what stars you know, and see to it that your lights are burning bright; and if you notice, with no joy, that your friends are no slightly divergent courses, which will take them out of sight before nightfall, wish them Godspeed." By all means, this is a book to own.