Tue _Courmenan October-December. A "Quarterly Now-Party Review. and Wircollany of Rural Life and Work. Edited and. Published" by"
Roberteom Scott at Idbury, Kinginam, Oxfordshire. 278 quarterly or 10/
Th the late autumn, about October or November, earwigs set up house-Keeping—and' so Dr. Malcolm Burr concerns' himself with "The Private Life of the Earwig" in the current number of "The Countryman?
Earwiys wore in England aeons before man." They, branched off from Some. generalized" insects "ancestral. to Cockroaches and themselves. They fare found in' drops of gum exuded from the: trees. that covered Europe {then our climate was tropical, and So'are reserved in amber after, saY; sheiy® milieu "years.
An account of a 525-mile walk is given under "Edinburgh to London Foot" by Douglas A. Scott—and what sympathy can be felt with one whose shoes, bought for the walk and tried Sceumtlated sourness of ry Sat mould.
There is something original in the suggestion for a "Sea Bowl: you care to bring away from Chusen handful of otherwise worthiest any Benen "this "autumn a" carefully
Hobbies. and. sheila you can make home. Tt has been said" that and gleaming. ure" contents of the and. you can store tpt "grace. your rooms then flowers arg searce and. expen ina lover for fwashem stones, kay" for hows; "and Edward. Shankes "Rock Poo! with fis "lucent shells under the" light-shot water"
It fs dim cult to do justice to the fascination of the articles contained "The Countryman," they are so extraordinarily varied and. refreshing The photographs in this issue sise have their usual charm, "Sussex by the Se fut for twenty miles a few days previously, played him false in. the first two days! He also complains "The kilt isan abomination when but determination won through even when it came to tearing 8 ligament in his right foot with still sixty miles to 1 managed to enter London swings hata going with that ton ligament. energetically. but It was Mlddlemen's Profits arm gh Seige among*the Pickers," by a manager settle ire! Goa white. mould. One "alms to. pick A'wet day follows and for "The Flower Garden" is a useful olleetion of notes from various ama-tours, and there is the 13th instalment of the Diary of a Fruit Farmer, May 4 to August 5—here is part of his entry for June 16, sss: Bought my wife a taste of chettien, The Kent" grower received lei The Gentry's Provision "In Search of an Island" series is interrupted in this issue in order that RIN. Lockley, the author, may' Mtrlbeinore St the it oad animal" ute of ie dana of Soke etm the Woy by Which ave Men and Women Brmsiaoe, By WB Maxwell, Mute chanson. "London. 8/0.
'This is the third but, it is to be hoped, not the last of the excellent series' of novels that Mr. Maxwell has had published under the sub-title of "Men and Women." His present effort is not a sequel to the others that the reader is not to imagine that any continuity or point of special Interest. from the previous books is being lost. "Eversiade" Is a brilliant expose of the lives of several im-/ portant personages—Iimportant that is a small way—in the delightfully picturesque Hampshire village of that fame. We are shown the youth of these folks, how they grow into comfortable, complacent middle age, and then spend their declining years. in feverish anxiety worrying about the faults and mistakes of the present day generation—faults and mistakes which they, in their younger days considered necessary evils to their modes. of living. How history does espeat itself! It's a story that might almost be a. resume of one's "own! life, so realistically are the scenes} Jand characters laid. All of us at one time or another have experienced the emotions and outlooks of Mr. Maxwells folk and I am inclined to suspect that' the author is to a great extent drawing on episodes from his own lite for his material. His people fare typical of what one might expect to find in any English village where the squire still reigns supreme, and the many. petty quarrels, differences, hates and loves of the various littc coleries that are to be observed. in their efforts to win esteem in. the Jeyes of the Lord of the Manor are very well depicted,
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