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JISTORY rather more to my taste is found in George Naylor’s series of talks, Raw Material. I don’t know if any novelists or scenario writers will accept his invitation to use this raw material for their plots. I rather hope not, historical novels and films being what they are; I prefer Mr. Naylor’s own unembroidered narrative. But any hook is good enough to hand a series of talks on when the talks are as good as these are in their own right. I don’t know .where Mr. Naylor found these remarkable characters and events-in the publications of the Hakluyt Society, perhaps?-but he makes the best of such a man as the English shipwright who became the friend of the most powerful shogun in Japan. Although they have been, so far as I have heard them, stories of action, Mr. Naylor’s style is ruminative rather than exciting. I’ve been chary of using the word "interesting" since the time I heard a book reviewer on the air use it seventeen times in one talk, but it’s the right word for this kind of material, good middle‘brow, YA material. I'm glad the YAs are getting more of the kind these days.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 16
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