"PURVEYORS OF TRIPE"

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1932, Page 7

"PURVEYORS OF TRIPE"

The "Daily Telegraph," says our London correspondent,. bases an editorial paragraph on Miss Jane Mander's statement regarding English publishers. A cablegram sent from Wellington men. tions Miss Mander's opinion that "too much favour is shown by English publishers to young men just:down from Oxford or Cambridge, jvhose work is often nothing but tripe." /'A harsh breath from the Antipodes has ruffled the placid waters of Cam arid Isis," says "The Telegraph" writer, "J.E.S." "Young men in their third year who are wondering whether to become saxophonists, teachers, gossip writers, or novelists, may ponder the words of a Now Zealand authoress, who has declared that their work is 'often nothing but tripe.' The cruel word is perhaps just. At all events, most of their first novels have an air of being 'written from within.' But publishers' readers, those embittered men, will testify that there,- are tripe purveyors who have never been to Oxford or Cambridge, and are not even young. Not every book can be a masterpiece, arid even 'tripe' has devotees who esteem it highly. The nonsense which, according to Max Beerbohm, is 'gently put back' into the young .inaji at the university, must out again somewhere. And some of it, the publishers find, is very entertaining nonsense."