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is part of: B.C. Historical Documents Collection
creator: McArthur, Peter, 1866-1924
issued: 2017-09-11
issued: 1926
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcdocs/items/1.0370078/source.json
extent: 157 pages
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note: { a Ai :\ %ano 40*y**}> .•» * 77* KINGS TREASURIES OF LITERATURE yCtU Ml GENERAL EDITOR Sir AT- QUILLER. COUCH r 'Hi i — NEW YORK EPDUTTON AND COMPAQ jiA^AS^A^^VA^A^A^^^^gA^^SVN^V^^a^^ J MLDEHJ^SONS •LTD^LOMrafl^XORONTQ EBBis&agmg All rights reserved First Edition Reprinted 1925 1926 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN fgggflfegg&agggfi The collection of some of Peter McArthur's writings in a volume intended for use in schools is a recognition of their educational value. That involves also the idea that his work, even when humorous in form, was serious in purpose. And that is true, as I am convinced not only by McArthur's literary productions, but by the knowledge of his character gained in more than thirty years of intimate friendship. He was always trying to work out a philosophy of life, and to live the life of his meditation. He was a humorist too. The serious and the humorous view of life are not contradictory, but complementary. The basis of both is a right sense of proportion and of relative values. In order that the flower and the food-plant may grow, we must get rid of the weeds; and the humour that laughs at folly and pompous pretence is a process of weeding. Consider, for instance, the folly of the miser. He is lacking equally in serious purpose and in sense of humour; unable to perceive that his life is at once a tragedy and a joke; and his reform, if possible at all, might be effected by appealing to him on either side. McArthur's philosophy was founded upon a strong conviction of the value of the home. As a young 5 msBB&msm I FAMILIAR FIELDS married man he left New York, with all its attractions for a brilliant writer, and went back to the old homestead in Ekfrid, in order that his children might have home advantages such as are hard to obtain in the great city. He preached what he practised. He praised farming, not as a money-making occupation, but as a means of maintaining a home. Farming, he said, is above all a home-building occupation, rather than a money-ma…
has type: Books
identifier: PN6014 .D46 1925
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0370078
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New York : Dutton
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Woodward Library. Memorial Room. Hawthorn collection. PN6014 .D46 1925
subject: Education
subject: English literature--Historical texts
type: Text