18 MAY 1951, Page 20

A Good Anthology

I must recommend A Nature-Lover? Anthology, edited by R. M. Lockley (Witherby, 10s. 6d.), because the prose and verse chosen by thi, knowledgeable and sensitive naturalist add up to a whole which is 3 comprehensive picture of our countryside and our responses to it. It ranges wide, but in everything in the book one feels of the compiler the,: " For him the woods were a borne and gave him the key

Of knowledge, thitst for their treasures in herbs and flowers."