THIS is a successor to the Old English Farming Books
from FitzHerbert to Tull, 1523-1730. Mr. Fussell gives a list in alpha- betical order of 456 books, pamphlets and periodicals, and the libraries where they can be found, and 'a separate list of their authors, as well as a short bibliography of reference books. There is also a list of the editions and works of Arthur Young, by G. D. Amery, of the Oxford School of Rural Economy. All this is useful, and would have been still more valuable with the addition of a general index through which a subject could have been followed. Unfortunately, Mr. Fussell's comments on each of the many items are heavy and sometimes confused ; they are never very illuminating. But the book will be of value as a source of information in all libraries where students of agricultural history wish to know what was written on farming in the eighteenth century.
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