Good Book Reviews

But if students have not been writing they have been reading. There has always been a good book review, and a quick appreciation—at times too quick and too free—of most of the Caxton Press writers: Curnow. Glover, Fairburn. Brasch, Baxter. Holcroft. Sargeson. TOMORROW'S demise did not pass unnoticed, nor T. S. Eliot's CRITERION, nor did the suppression or DECAMERON escape with less than an editorial. New developments were constantly being brought to the notice of the students. Salient's files cover adequately ten very eventful years of literarv history: in New Zealand the birth of Modern Books, the Progressive Publishing Society. New Zealand New Writing and Landfall: overseas the writings of Koestler. Auden. MacNeice, the Readers' Digest, the Left Book Club. Penguin New Writing and Poetry.

Victoria has been noted for the at-tention it pays to current politics, and it may also fairly claim to be a place where it is recognized that literature can live on in "the vertical man "