11 JUNE 1932, Page 28

ENGLAND MUDDLES THROUGH By Harold E. Scarborough

An American journalist who has worked in London for eleven years should know a good deal about England and the English. It is no surprise, then, to find Mr. Harold E. Scarborough's England Muddles Through (Macmillan, 7s. fkl.) well-informed, sympathetic and interesting. He wrote the book for American readers and deals briefly with many topics in a general effort to emphasize the difference between pre- War and post-War England. The inevitable result is a certain superficiality, above all in the political and economic sections. But Mr. Scarborough does not patronize or ridicule, and seems on the whole of opinion that "we—Americans and English—are really very like each other—particularly in our inconsistencies."