Volume 8, Number 5 · March 23, 1967
"Late Again," He Groaned
By Nigel Dennis
The Inquisitory
by Robert Pinget
Grove, 399 pp., $6.50
The Village
by Thomas Hinde
Hodder & Stoughton, 384 pp., $7.50
Death of the Hind Legs & Other Stories
by John Wain
Viking, 192 pp., $4.50
'Declare your interest!' they shout in the House of Commons when an MP who owns a chain of hock shops omits to say so when orating hotly in favor of a bill to lower the tax on hock shops. So, book reviewers who also write books ought to declare their interest when reviewing books with resemblances to ones which they have written themselves. Particularly if they are going to voice a dislike of the book under review, they should feel obliged to warn the reader that their deep sense of duty may be only a mask for a most malicious prejudice.
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