The Brains Trust Book. (Hutchinson. is.) The Brains Trust—a title
which the B.B.C. producer responsible assures us has been, like greatness, thrust upon those taking part in the Any Questions programme—is a typical by-product of a jour- nalistic age. It supplies to listeners exactly that class of information, " serious in intention, light in character," for which the demand used to be met by knowledge in fortnightly parts and is still, in the dedicated columns of most newspapers and magazines, available on any fundamental questions of love or money. Some minds have this flair for popular presentation, but it is essentially the sphere of the middle-brow : the meeting-place of the average intelligence above par and the more-than-average intelligence below par. The Questions and Answers collected together in this little volume (whose proceeds go to supply books for the Forces) will provide considerable entertainment of a pleasantly desultory sort, not least those passages which it is difficult to believe have not strayed from the pages of a contemporary over the initials A. P. H.
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