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''Rotary Luncheon Address by Mr. G. J. Pass'' is an article published in [[The Eastbourne Gazette]] on 24 october 1928.


== Rotary Luncheon Address by Mr. G. J. Pass ==
[[File:the-eastbourne-gazette-1928-10-24-p20-rotary-luncheon-address-by-mr-g-j-pass.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[The Eastbourne Gazette]] (24 october 1928, p. 20)]]

'''THE BEST LITERATURE'''

'''ROTARY LUNCHEON ADDRESS BY MR. G. J. PASS'''

The weekly Rotary luncheon at Boots' restaurant on Monday was addressed by Rotarian G. J. Pass, who took as his subject, "The Fascination of Reading." Rotarian P. Morgan Jones was in the chair.

Mr. Pass, in the course of a very interesting talk, said that there were very few really good biographies, the three outstanding ones being Boswell's "Life of Johnson," Morley's "Life of Gladstone," and Strachey's "Some Eminent Victorians." He thought that the best history was Trevelyan's "History of England," a recently published work.

Referring to fiction, he affirmed that among the best historical novels were Thackeray's "Esmond," Charles Reade's "Cloister and the Hearth," and the novels of Stanley Weyman. Romantic fiction was well represented by R. L. Stevenson's works, and by "The Prisoner of Zenda," and other novels by Anthony Hope. Many "realistic" novels were declared by Mr. Pass to be "positive horrors." Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga" was the best among them.

The finest present day humorist, he thought, was P. G. Wodehouse. Poetry, the speaker said, is read by very few nowadays, probably because it is badly taught at schools, thus discouraging the children from reading it.

Mr. Pass afterwards gave a reading of [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]]'s "[[The Guns in Sussex|The Guns of Sussex]]," and also of a letter to Lady Leconfield by E. V. Lucas.

A vote of thanks was accorded to the speaker on the motion of Rotarian A. le Pine Strange. 





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