CONVENTIONAL TARGETS
GUNS WANTED, by J. K. Stanford; Faber and Faber. English price, 15/-. [HIS novel drips with nostalgic yearning for the good old days in Britain, when income tax was less voracious and before the sinister War. Ag. had intruded upon the countryside or "this government" so messed things up. This rather crabbed, querulous view of English country life as something irremediably spoiled for the best people is dreary reading, but it is balanced by a vigorous and much more light-hearted description of shooting partridges in England or grouse in Scotland, subjects the author evidently has at his fingertips, and a little fox-hunting, Through all runs a thinnish thread of plot which now and then produces some spirited horse-play. J. K. Stanford is better at farce than at comedy; he often gets a laugh. His robust humour is supported by many anecdotes drawn apparently from memories of armv life in India and
elsewhere.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 21
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156CONVENTIONAL TARGETS New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 541, 4 November 1949, Page 21
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