LITERARY HOAXES
Sir-J.C.R., in his article "Ern Malley Had Forebears" repeats an error which appeared in similar articles covering the Malley hoax. This is the reference to Chappel’s The Cruise of the Kawa, published with the author’s name as "Dr. Taprock." J.C.R. uses the suggestion that this burlesque deceived the National Geographic Society of the United States, but one cannot avoid the observation that if anyone connected with the society was deceived it must have been because he (or she) had not read any of the publisher’s announcements nor the reviews of the book. The Cruise of the Kawa was published as a burlesque, and because it was sO announced and reviewed, I ordered a copy. When I saw the work, it was so rough and blatant that I put small value on it. For a number of _ years it was in a quiet corner of my library and then was tossed out to make room for better things. To suggest that "Taprock’s" work had any influence on the publication of traveller’s tales is as nonsensical as the suggestion that "few dared to write in the Trader Horn or Joan Lowell vein again." As a matter of fact I think Taprock preceded both of them-certainly he was before Joan Lowell. The importance given to "Taprock’s" burlesque is just another
hoax.-
J. J. W.
POLLARD
(Welling-
ton)_
P.S.: Has an Ern Malley ever happened in New Zealand?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 7
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236LITERARY HOAXES New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 273, 15 September 1944, Page 7
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