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'The Provincial Lady and her Books '-I

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Miss E. M. DELAFIELD : 'Reading and Everyday
Life' (From Plymouth)
The difficulty of deciding in the midst of a busy life what books to buy or borrow is a very real one. Few people have the opportunity of keeping up with the flow of new books, and. Miss E. M Delafield , author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady,' guides the reader who wants relaxation over the shelves of the circulating and subscription library, indicating old favourites in the less pretentious fields of literature. She begins today a series of thirteen talks with such palatable titles as'VeryLight Reading,' Books to Read Aloud,' 'Some Exciting Books,' and Books with Happy Endings. At the end of them a great many people should know their way beUer about the dark worlds of 'Fiction' and ' Non-Fiction.'

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Miss E. M. Delafield
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