MILDLY AMUSING
AN AUSTRALIAN ALPHABET, by J. D. Medley. Illustrated by Armstrong; Melbourne University Press, Australian price 10/6. HE. level at which light verse deserves publication in solid and expensive book form should be placed
pretty high, especially when it, is to bear the imprint of a University Press. Competence is not enough. It is with nothing more that this collection, partly reprinted from Australian journals but mostly written for private circulation, ranges over subjects under the alphabet’s letters, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, through Betting and Beer, Liberal and Labour, Quizzes, and Universities, to Xmas and Zebu. There is some deft handling of words and an occasional bright idea, but no real flash and crackle, and some of the stuff is dull. Armstrong’s illustrations are a little funnier than the verses.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 14
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132MILDLY AMUSING New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 14
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