Selection of Books
78 BOOK REVIEW, well established and working to a_ time tested formula, remains a pleasant weekly feature. It has variety; its level is fairly high; its reviewers are widely chosen. But it seems to me that, of recent weeks, we have heard several programmes of exceptionally dull books, which even the most able reviewers have failed to make appealing. It sounds almost as if the session discusses only books sent by publishers, and all of these. without discrimination. We have novels, books oh sport, war, politics, history, people; but seldom any new translations of foreign novels, even more rarely religious books of a nonspecialist kind, books on art and the theatre, poetry, plays, literary studies or reprints of the classics, and the like. Sometimes, indeed, the books reviewed appeared to have been taken at random from the "Miscellaneous" counter of a poor book store. I feel that the session
would be more even in quality if books were more carefully selected, and if a wider range of subject were included. Why, for instance, should religious works be ignored-even though the session is broadcast on a New Zealand Sunday?
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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193Selection of Books New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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