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ID
cx198
Title
The Best Things in Life and the Worst
Genre
Essay
Page Count
2
Word Count
780
Publisher
Evening News
Publication Year
1938
Document Types
Full-text Online
Eads, Additions to
Original Manuscript (mss)
Added since 2020

Bates ruminates on the difficulty of identifying what things qualify as the best and worst of life.

Settling on 'only solid and tangible things, something easily grasped', he identifies zoos, hunting, poetry, and the music of Wagner among his least favorite things, while children, old people, flowers, and the music of Mozart are among his most favourite.

In the London Evening News (April 21, 1938, attached).

A manuscript with the title 'The Best and Worst in Life' is held at The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, (Manuscript Collection MS-00261)