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A SURGEON IN PARIS, by Charles F. Bove; Museum Press, English price 16/-. HAVE no doubt that Dr Bove is a fine surgeon and a good man. I have his testimony that he was a_V.LP. in the international life of Paris. For twenty-one years he did an heroic job in the American Hospital there, and he met all the Best People: Mistinguette, Lindbergh, Hemingway, and the ghost of Madame de Recamier. Also the worst: Kreuger, Laval, and the invading Nazis. But he is not a good writer. His book is shapeless, superficial, I-charged gossip: a series of insta'ments for a Ladies’ Magazine, by Axel Munthe out of Sava, but lacking the small finesse of either of these unnecessarily popular from-the-inside-of-your-operation writers. Doctors should sharpen their pens, or
stick to the scalpel.
Anton
Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 14
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135BLUNTED SCALPEL New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 14
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