19 FEBRUARY 1943, Page 22

THERE is a demand for information about America and there

is supply. Easily one of the best examples of the supply is Mrs Street's amusing, wise and well-planned book. It is at. its bet when she is describing family life, the role of the school, the college, the apparatus of social life. But she also manages to give th flavour of many sides of American life, especially of the averag. American in the small city She is less adept in the more prosaically factual details, which is a pity, but not a great pity.