Mr. Drinkwater has always confessed to an overmastering passion for
genealogies and personal histories. His poetic muse is indeed chiefly inspired by it, gaining therefrom its flavour for localities and place-names. Sooner or later Mr. Drinkwater would have had to consider a deliberate co- ordination of the moving spirit within his life. He has now felt that the time has come to undertake the task. The result is the first volume of his autobiography, to be called Inheritance (Benn, 10s. 6d.), and to be written at leisure through an ambling course of several volumes. These will no doubt be amply illustrated like the first, which gives us pictures of two generations of relatives and of family relics such as the whip used by his grandfather who owned and drove a stage-coach. The book displays reverently the yeoman life of Oxfordshire in the Nineteenth Century, but it does not make very stimulating reading, giving the impression of being very much a family affair.
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