be done about it? What ought most clearly to be
done about it, in my view, is to give definite and increased priority to educational books. I know the difficulties. It means nice decisions as to what books are educational and what aren't. It means discrimination. Well, there ought to be discrimination. A vast amount of raper is going into books that are sheer trash, while school-children and undergraduates are without the raw material of education. You cannot ban bad books, or books which someone considers to be bad ; that would be censorship pure and simple. But you can give a definite advantage to educational books. The President of the Board of Trade could not do it himself, still less a civil servant, but a small committee whose personnel would command general respect could perfectly well make the necessary decisions. Some such step seems essential. * *
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