Miscellany
The Four Aere. By J. C. Badcock. Phoenix. 137 pp. This book is a remembrance of life in the Midlands early this century. As a boy the author used to pitch his tent in a four-acre field near a canal and a wood and spend all the summer living out with his brother Brad as his almost constant companion through the daylight hours. He shows in his writing a keen eye and ear for natural objects coupled with a welcome refusal to sentimentalise nature itself or the boys’ attitude to it. The worldly side of life in the four acre is shown with as much clarity as the beauty, and Mr Badcock makes no attempt to excuse the snaring of rabbits or the liming of bullfinches. Yet this honesty is not enough in itself to produce a book capable of holding the reader; only those intensely interested in nature observation will persevere.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31576, 13 January 1968, Page 4
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153Miscellany Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31576, 13 January 1968, Page 4
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