The fourth class is "the Working Class." The working man is deseribed by Mr, Wellard as both casual and good-humoured, and one who may easily be recognized by a lower lip which hangs low, and formidable language which falls back on the sexual. and excrementary "functions for emphasis, The last three classes comprise "the Student," "the Adventurer," and the Exile" "Mr, Wellard summarizes the former as "brown above the vast, grey below," and one whose red tendencies and demonstrations are watched with amusement by the government leaders. The only fea ture of "the Adventurer" which impresses the author is his ability to spin extraordinary yarns in the small hours of the morning, "The Exile" he dismisses as the Adventurer gone to seed, chapter on the latter subject. He offers the interesting theory that the English character has been modulated Jby the drab English weather, I was very annoyed by one statement on sports: see, would be incapable, st Mite sh workman, for King's ball witha cricket bat, even though The can elaborate over 'a pint of Ueer now Jack Hobbs, national Rreror ought' io to. it.
This 1 consider a gross libel.
"Understanding the English" is an lexcelient. book and can be recommended to all who enjoy the Mac-Donell, Lucas, Linklater and Btilne type of book~w.v.K.c.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.