The Book Society
The Book Society
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图书协会
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发表时间：
1931
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通讯作者：
Maurice E. Stevens
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作者：
Maurice E. Stevens
这将是一个铁石心肠的人可以严厉地说书社没有一些内心的痛苦后悔或悔恨。还有比这更值得称赞的机构吗？还是一个以更无私的愿望来改善人类思想的人？它的傀儡是如此和蔼可亲，它的对象是如此令人钦佩，它的活动是如此无害和善意，以至于嘲笑者沉默，愤世嫉俗者受到谴责。在一个由休·沃波尔、约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利、克莱门斯·戴恩、西尔维亚·林德和乔治·戈登组成的选拔委员会里，人们能找到什么抱怨的理由呢？
IT would be a hard‐hearted man who could speak harshly of the Book Society without some inward pang of regret or remorse. Was there ever a more praiseworthy institution? Or one that set out with a more unselfish desire to improve the minds of humanity? So amiable are its figureheads, so admirable its objects, so harmless and well‐intentioned its activities, that the scoffer is silenced and the cynic rebuked. What cause of complaint can one find in a Selection Committee which contains Hugh Walpole, John Boynton Priestley, Clemence Dane, Sylvia Lynd, and George Gordon?