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IN attempting to provide information about "trees, shrubs and woodlands, wild flowers and plants (including fungi, mosses, etc.), insects, animal life, birds, countryfolk, customs and folk lore", as well as "information on the National Forest Parks, Youth Hostels Association, local clubs, research areas, etc.", in 113 pages, Stanley Manning might well have considered " if he might not have made his book a little longer. He might also have considered whether the use of technical terminology is advisable in a book meant for beginners and whether the introduction of controversial issues should not be left to a later place than the first chapter. This is particularly so since anyone who reads right through the book will realize that Manning has much of value to offer to the novitiate in country ways and customs. The scraper-board drawings by Elaine Hancock are attractively done, but perhaps not so suitable as line drawings for a book of this kind.
The Right Way to Understand the Countryside
By Stanley A. Manning. (Right Way Books.) Pp. viii + 116 + 4 plates. (London: Rolls House Publishing Co., Ltd., n.d.) 5s.
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HAWKINS, T. The Right Way to Understand the Countryside. Nature 161, 995 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161995d0
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