AN OLD FAVOURITE COMES AGAIN
IFTEEN years ago, "The Story of a’ New Zealand River’ was perhaps the most popular novel ever published by a New Zealander. It will be interesting to see how it is received to-day, in the reprinted edition, after so many other works of varying importance have set new standards, Actually, there is much in Jane Mander’s hook that does not stand well under the light of a second. much later _reading. All the same, the picture of New Zealand pioneering life, its hardships and compensations, is drawn in strong colours, and there will probably
be many who will enjoy the book for that virtue alone. If the romance of Dr. David Bruce and Mrs. Tom Roland is at times mawkish and melodramatic, the New Zealand setting and the peculiar conditions of New Zealand backwoods life are still as believeable as they were when the novel was fitst published. \ "The Story of a New Zealand River," by Jane Mander (Whitcombe and. Tombs, Ltd., New Zealand). Our copy from the publishers.
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Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 32
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174AN OLD FAVOURITE COMES AGAIN Radio Record, 1 July 1938, Page 32
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