A Source of Income

But the book is not really aimed at the reader so much as the serious teacher of speech and drama. I know of several

students at this university who find tutoring the offspring of latter-day Mrs Worthingtons to be quite a lucrative source of income. For them this book could be quite invaluable. It contains a good selection of verse and prose extracts graded for difficulty, beginning with a little number by 'Anon' for children and ending with a prose extract from Virginia Woolf. It could save a teacher a lot of time in fereting around in books looking for nice children's poems, and although it contains no drama extracts for 'character sketches', the prose pieces would be ideal for say a prepared reading class, or for training in sightreading. It is a damned nuisance having to hunt out short, self contained chunks of prose from novels, and this anthology provides a good number of them for the teacher.

Lamda do not, as far as I know, conduct examinations in New Zealand, but their centennary anthology is none the less a book which many teachers of speech might find a useful part of their bookshelf.

S.D.