ENGLAND—IN BRIEF
Describing England, Mr. H. A.' L .Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, says that it is a country which has spread through the worldParliaments, railways, factories, cooperative soeieties,-and safety bicycles; The use of tobacco and afternoon The practice of athletic sports, and septic surgery; Child welfare work; Boy Scouts and Girl Guides; The jury system, the Salvation Army; High-class tailoring, and Gilbert,and Sullivan operas. It is favourably considered abroad for— Plays of Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw; . Poems of: Milton and ByronBiology of Darwin; , Philosophy of Herbert Spencer, and The fiction of Scott, Dickens, Kip. £?% Conan D°yle > Galsworthy, and Wells. ' ' • '
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 23
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101ENGLAND—IN BRIEF Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 23
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