NEW ZEALAND COMEDY
The best way to rouse interest in a book (this is a cynical reflection, but. let it pass) is to get it stigmatised as “ indecent.” There has been a sudden demand in New Zealand for Boccaccio’s ‘ Decameron.’ Why? Because a young constable happened to poke hia nose into’ it, was shocked, and informed his superiors, who, brought a chargo against a local. book manager for allowing it to be hired out to the public.! The manager was duly convicted,- and had to appeal to the Supreme Court; which has now decided that the conviction should not have been entered. It’* a mad world. Perhaps some enterprising publisher will now get a young constable to raise a similar fuss about Chaucer. Or—why not?—Shakespeare. —‘ John o’ London’s Weekly.’
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Evening Star, Issue 23423, 14 November 1939, Page 12
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129NEW ZEALAND COMEDY Evening Star, Issue 23423, 14 November 1939, Page 12
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