THE ENGLISH WAY
The first few pages of "England, Their England," by A. G. Macdpiiell,. are sufficient to show the excellence of the fare that will be set before you, and you settle down to enjoy its gaiety and. its droll satire and its general sparkle. A young Scot comes south—in the usual Scottish way, to earn a living. This Donald Cameron has "no qualifications for any profession except the- ability to drive n. moderately crooked furrow and to direct the fire of a six-gun battery of eighteen-pounder guns." Very naturally, therefore, he resolves to try his fortune as a journalist. But it happens that once ou a time he met a publisher in a-pill-box in iFrance, and this publisher now suggests the writing of a book about England. So Donald proceeds to "explore," and the material he is able to collect is sufficiently varied. He is commissioned by editors to review plays and books: invited to play cricket and golf: employed by a member of Parliament to assist him-at an"election and at Geneva: asked to dinners and country houses. He sees a lot of "their" England. What he makes of it is partly a "scream," partly a revelation. The chiel from Scotland finds holes in the coats of all. Englishmen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 19
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