"My Sister Eileen"
New zealanders who know and' appreciate "The New Yorker" will welcome the publication in book form of one of its popular series of contributions—'"My Sister Eileen," by Ruth }4fcKenney (Chatto and Windus). Here <-*re 15. episodes from- the girlhood of Ruth, and her sister Eileen, some of them dating from their schooldays in an American country town, and later ones from their life in New York. The vitality and. originality that is the mainspring of: these -sketches, got the author into'-a, good many scrapes in her ,earlier days, : hut also enabled !her to enjoy them botli at the time and in retrospect. And now many thousands of people who are more conventional in behaviour and outlook will gain vicarious pleasure from these episodes. It is always dangerous to recommend a humorous work, for humour is largely a matter of fashion, being limited not only by time but -by national boundaries. The popularity of such a* book as this in a country other than its own is therefore unpredictable, and one can only hope that there arc large numbers of people so constituted that they can grasp at the rich enjoyment 'that it offers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)
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