Abstract
A VERY real, if somewhat elusive, charm attaches to most well-finished works the creation of which is felt instinctively to have been a labour of love. “Rustic Sounds and other Studies” possesses this quality in a marked degree, and the essays themselves suggest the pleasant conversation of a friend who is drawing on the resources of ripened experience, which he desires to share with others. A certain note of personal intimacy seems to run through the whole volume, and even such debatable matters as the proper aims, means, and objects of education are discussed in such a way that even those who may differ from the author will scarcely seek to quarrel with him.
Rustic Sounds and other Studies in Literature and Natural History.
By Sir Francis Darwin. Pp. 231. (London: John Murray, 1917.) Price 6s. net.
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F., J. Rustic Sounds and other Studies in Literature and Natural History . Nature 101, 3–4 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101003c0
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