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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol 7, No. 2 April 13, 1944

New Writing, 15

New Writing, 15

It is some time since the enterprising publishing house of Jonathan Cape started to publish their Penguin Books, and they later added to their ordinary lists of novels, crime and adventure, Penguin New Writing. At a start it aimed at introducing the general and perhaps particularly the young and uninformed reader to good modern writing. This by reprints and translations as well as original stories and articles. After a few early issues the standard seemed to be slipping away; notable continental writers were dead or imprisoned and therefore no longer represented. This last issue seems to have recovered that virility which typified early numbers. There are eight new contributors to No. 15, of whom, probably, only two are known to New Zealand readers. Anyone interested in present day writing and modern life will find this selection both provocative and stimulating.

Gran, teurer Freund, ist alle theorie and grun des Lebens goldncr Baum.

—Goethe.

"All theory, my friend is grey, but the spreading tree of life is green!"