ROBINSON OF ENGLAND By John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater's last book (Methuen, 8s. 6d.) should please those young people who like facts served up with a mild flavouring of fiction, after the manner of The Swiss Family Robinson. The scholar-recluse of this little story, who entertains his nieces and nephew in his Cotswold cottage, lectures them on the charms of old England, its manor-houses, churches and countryside, its rustic tools, alehouse tokens, salt- glaze jugs, and so on, and quotes a great deal of English poetry. He reveals in fact the particular enthusiasms and the eigaging fads that Mr. Drinkwater himself cherished, including a liking for professional football. The scholar's monologues are at times rather too high-flown for children, but Mr. J. H. Dowd's outline drawings may restore the balance.
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