The Henson Journals
Sat 13 December 1930
Volume 51, Page 200
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Saturday, December 13th, 1930.
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A beautiful day, sunny and quite mild. I finished the charge, and frittered away the rest of the day very uselessly. Also, I essayed to order my study–table, which had again become chaotic to the point of practical paralysis.
I read through a little book by Edwyn Bevan, "The Hope of the World to come', in which he makes something like a protest against the anti–eschatological teaching of the Dean of S. Paul's.
The 8th volume of the Cambridge Ancient History arrived, a monstrous volume of more than 700 pages. It deals with 'Rome and the Mediterranean. 218–133 B.C.'. I buy these books, but I have no time to read them: and the pace of their publication is ever quickening. Before one book is finished with, it has become obsolete, and another must be read. I wonder whether it would not be a wiser course to leave all these modern books altogether alone, & limit one's reading to the great standards and the texts. The question of providing book–space for the waxing flood of new publications is becoming serious. And I draw near to the Three–score years & ten!