A BOOK AND ITS JACKET

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 452, 20 February 1948, Page 5

A BOOK AND ITS JACKET

Sir,-The review of Peter Newton’s Wayleggo in your issue of January 23 is a most encouraging one for the autho: and for ourselves as publishers. We are pleased that your reviewer formed as high an opinion of the. book as we did of the original manuscript., There is, however, one Point in the review that we would question. The final paragraph draws attention to an error on the dust jacket which would lead a reader of the book to assume that the sheep stations written of in Wayleggo are located in the Mackenzie Country. If your reviewer will iook again at the dust jacket announcement (for which the writer was personally responsible) he will see that this is not the case. The jacket teads: "Peter Newton writes of the famous Stations he knows so well, Mesopotamia, Molesworth, Lake Coleridge and others, of the Mackenzie Country, of his musterer friends and their ree

markable dogs, of winter deer-stalking and kea-hunting, but above all of the great high-country, the Southern Alps, where he worked and lived for so long." Your reviewer overlooked a comma. As the "Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University. Press, Oxford," says: "Commas are often used instead of parentheses. . .."

J. H.

RICHARDS

(Production Mana-

ger, A. H. and A. W. Reed).

Our reviewer replies: -""Mr. Newton does not write of the Mackenzie Country at all. Not one of the stations on which he mustered is in the Mackenzie, Comma or no comma, therefore, the dust-jacket is in error."