23 JULY 1910, Page 24

Back to the Land. By "C'." (Longman and Co. 4e.

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-The author describes the book as a " Medley "; perhaps this should have roused our suspicions. It did not do so, however, and we took it up and read a considerable part in the belief that we were going to hear something about small holdings. What we really did find was an amusing story of how the author was taken in time after time by house-agents. Now and then he diverges ; so ho discourses on a declining birth-rate and the feeble-minded problem, and elsewhere on the family name of Dobney ; but the main theme is how he went to one place after another, and did not find what he wanted.