BOOK REVIEW SESSION
Sir,-It was a pleasure to hear Frofessor Algie’s talk in a recent ZB Book Review. This session appears to be the meeting. place for a mutual admiration society of a few publishers and a few writers in our "neglected" local market, but for once a person well known outside this disappointing circle was permitted to speak, Most New Zealanders realise, when they think about it, that local writers are poorly rewarded. But is this Book Review helping them to think about it? We are shown that books, like soap tablets, have a personality on the air. We feel that the reviewers and the authors are usually great pals, and that the ZB Book Review will tell the public the truth. We feel it, but we do not believe it. Listening might be easier if the reviewers were humble; if the authors’ "explanations" lacked vigour, if the chairman-who is usually well-experi-enced-would concern himself with why some books are "good" and others "bad" and leave the detailed work for the rest of the speakers. :
P.
CORBETT
(Auckland)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 5
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178BOOK REVIEW SESSION New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 524, 8 July 1949, Page 5
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