12 JANUARY 1929, Page 21

We feel London : Town and Country (St. Catherine Press,

ls.) is written for the very unsophisticated ; it does not deal only with the town of London but with the surrounding country. The descriptions are so flowery—" On this side of the common are little ravines—old gravel pits—embowered in foliage " (this is Kelton Common !) that they are quite unrecognizable. But the amount of informatiOn contained in this book is portentous.