ZB BOOK REVIEW
Sir,-Peter Llewellyn’s book review session (Sunday, April 28, 2ZB) was of interest both for its deadpan ("just give me the facts, ma’am’’) delivery and, like James Joyce’s Ulysses, the absence of punctuation. It was only towards the end of the broadcast that I realised the life of Baden-Powell and frozen mammoths were not chapters in the initially announced Science in New Zealand. In retrospect it appeared that this publication, together with the fourth book under review, was curiously dismissed in one or two sentences. Sandwiched in between was a Form 2 dissertation on natural history liberally garnished with pseudoDylan Thomas phraseology and a thumbnail sketch of the Great Scout which would have done justice to an article in a widely-read, small sized American publication. A session of this nature, while apparently satisfying the reviewer’s poetic propensities, does not encourage interest in the books being discussed.
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(Wellington)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 11
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151ZB BOOK REVIEW New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 11
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