Two REvoamEas.
Such a general verdict is reached, though from very different angles, by two men who have each earned peculiar reputations as practical critics : Mr. Montague Fordham and Lord Lymington. Their two latest books are Britain's Trade and Agriculture, by Montague Fordham (George Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d.) and Horn, Hoof and Corn, by Viscount Lymington (Faber and Faber, 6s.). Mr. Fordham, in his day, has worked as a struggling and too honest middleman in London and gives hair-raising examples of the methods in vogue. He had invaluable experience on affairs of the land in Russia and Poland, and brings to the problems that his personal life has made vivid a logical mind proved in the schools of Cambridge University. He has done yeoman work in the Rural Reconstruction Association, which is his progeny. No critic is less subservient to theory or more human in outlook. His view is that we can only get control of our own civilization by freeing ourselves from outside competition by intensive production of necessities at home. Then, only then, can we supply "the flowers of civilization" to our people.
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