Shorter Notices
This is England! Compiled and Edited by C. G. Holme. (Studio. 15s).
THE object of this book is to describe England to the foreigner and the interested native in pictorial terms. The country is dealt with analytically under some sixty headings, of which Agriculture, Coal, Fox Hunting, the Law Courts, the Press and Town Homes are six representative samples. The photographs are accompanied by commentaries written by Mr. Herbert B. Grimsditch. It makes a pleasant, unsensational book. The subjects are reason- ably chosen, the photographs are adequate if unsurprising, the text is truthful if uninspired. It is not a book to provoke enthu- siasm, but it may be recommended without qualms to anyone who wants a publication of its kind. The price is no doubt determined by war conditions.
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