p.

2.
went to bed at 10-30 + read a short essay by Plutarch about
Marcus Cato; this is contained in a book called The
Knapsack, which was given to me by [Bastien?] + is an
anthology of prose + verse edited by Herbert Read. I remember
[Jon?] possessing an art book by him - is he an authority?
- Because I have recently read a small book by
him, called To Hell with Culture, which is one in a
series called The Democratic Order + which struck me
as being reasonably sensible, but pretty facile, an account
of slipping over the surface of things, + not making one
practical suggestion about how to bring about what he
thinks to be the better state of affairs.

I think there is an awful amount of rubbish + dope
being written just now, about after the war.
I bought these books today, which will not be rubbish +
which I hope to find interesting + hopeful. A Penguin
by Beatrice Webb called My Apprenticeship; another
Penguin by Josiah Wedgwood called The Economics
of Inheritance - which I think is a highly important
subject - it was well reviewed in the New Statesman
+ so stands to be good; + a small book, Russia +
Ourselves by Victor Gallancz. But books are such an
awful price here - 6d Penguins are 1-- + the Gallancz
book at 2/0 in England, cost me 4/3.
Sunday. April 5th. And now I must + will get on with this
letter. I glanced at the Gallancz book yesterday, + finished
up by settling down to it + finishing it off at midnight.
It is quite good + sound, but does not contain any thing
very new, + I found it mainly interesting as it expressed
the views of another section of opinion. But before