SPADE WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 10 (Supplement)

SPADE WORK

HUMOURS OF BUSINESS That rare, almost extinct, species, the English humorist, is to be observed in native conditions in Mark Spade's "Business for Pleasure." Part of this amusing volume has already appeared in Punch. Wo should thank Mr. Punch for that, for the patronage of that pillar of English wit probably persuaded Mr. Spade to continue digging in this fruitful soil. Big business is a wonderful field for the humorist. So much of the world's laughter is derived from the spectacle of another's misfortune it is natural that in depressed times the literary humorists, music hall comedians, and cartoonists (for example, Mr. Will Dyson on banking) should fall upon plutocracy and exhibit the pieces. Of Mr. Spade's share in this brigandage it should be stated that he evidently writes from first-hand knowledge on such subjects as "Merging and Emerging," "Sales Promotion and Ideas Men," "Forms," "Fires" and "Stores,'* and a variety of others. If you cannot believe humour could bo extracted from these, then put Mr. Spade to tho test. "Business for Pleasure," by Mark Spade. (Hamish Hamilton. Limited.)