30 MAY 1914, Page 24

The Woollen Manufacture at Wellington, Somerset. By J. H. Fox.

(A. L. Humphreys. 7s. 6d. net.)—Oliver Wendell Holmes said that every man could write one good book out of his own experience. In the same way we may say that every business which has been carried on for two centuries affords the material for an interesting history. Mr. Fox— who has himself been for sixty-four years in the business of which he is now the head—has written a narrative of its management by one of the old Quaker families for nearly two hundred and fifty years. His annals are commendably brief : they throw much interesting light on the growth of an important industry, and contain many details which will be of value to the historian of the eighteenth century.