If pay is low, so are standards. So most book reviewing is biased, or else bordering on self-advertisement. Linda Rogers's nifty George Fetherling and his Work (Toronto: Tightrope $14.95) has gathered a variety of articles and appreciations of Fetherling that reveal, among other things, how the country's most prolific reviewer goes about his craft. "I honestly try to be nicer to everybody else than they are to me,"; he once said. "Not out of altruism, out of purely selfish motives of making myself feel better. And some people, by their nastiness, make it much easier for me to be nicer to them than they are to me."; Fetherling fans in Rogers' compilation include John Burns, George Elliott Clarke, W.H. New, Brian Busby and Rhonda Batchelor (who recalls why her late husband Charles sent Fetherling his gold pan, "dented from long use and nicely oxidized,"; before he died.) 0-9738645-1-6