A BOOK REVIEW
Sir,-I was disappointed in reading the review by "P.J.W." of Alan Paton’s book Too Late the Phalarope in your issue of January 22. To my mind the review inadequately describes a very fine piece of writing. Even if opinions differ as to the standard of the work, my main criticism is that your reviewer has plainly failed to read the book, his versien of the pinning of the note to the door being completely at variance with the facts of the story. If he has so lamentably failed to grasp this point, one is then foreed to consider the value of the rest of his review and the thoroughness of his insight.
D. G.
SMITH
(Rotorua).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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119A BOOK REVIEW New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 5
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