THE GRIFFIN PRESS
Sir,-TIhe unkind reference to the Griffin Press in the review of my book "Sweet Beulah Land" (Listemer, June 21-27), deserves reproof. Certainly "knowledge is not sufficient without facilities." But it will be time enough to make patronising comment on the Griffin Press when those who have the facilities do one hundredth part as much for the cause of art and letters-in peace time, let alone amid almost insuperable war- |
time difficulties.-
RODERICK
FIND
LAYSON
(Auckland).
{This letter miscarried, or would have ap- | peared sooner, But Mr. Findlayson is too touchy. If we had shot the pianist he would have had reason to complain. Instead, we expressed regret that he had a poor piano. Our reviewer said (at the end of a wholly sympathetic notice): "It is a pity when a writer who is feeling his way goes to a printer engaged in the same occupation. The Griffin Press knows how to print, but knowledge is not sufficient without facilities. Nor was it safe to depend on the selling power of the deliberately scatty cover. A book to buy all the same.’’-Ed.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 217, 20 August 1943, Page 3
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