15 SEPTEMBER 1906, Page 24

The Book of Simple Delights. By Walter Raymond. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 6s.)—This volume consists of papers de rebus rusticis contributed to various periodicals and newspapers, and now collected and furnished with a slender connexion of narra- tive. The Spectator was one of the newspapers aforesaid, and so our notice must not go beyond description. The writer describes himself as taking a country cottage early in the summer, and going through a variety of the experiences which would naturally follow on that proceeding : engaging a "char," hunting down the solitary thatcher of the region, and so forth. If our readers remember the papers, they will not, we venture to think, be indis- posed to look for more of the same sort.