BOOK REVIEWS   

 

 

In common with most other writers, HW undertook book reviews for a number of periodicals and newspapers as a means of supplementing his income from royalties, though he was never a prolific reviewer. More often than not, he would be contacted and asked if he would write a set number of words on a book or books – and invariably, given his reputation, these would be ‘country’ books, or books about animals. Occasionally though, if a book or writer interested him enough, he would offer to write a review to help sales. HW could be somewhat idiosyncratic in his reviewing, and sometimes they reveal more about himself than the books under review.

 

As a one-time regular contributor to the Eastern Daily Press, and as editor of The Adelphi, HW mentioned a number of books which are often short notices rather than reviews as such. These too have been included for completeness. There are also three reviews and one other talk relevant here that HW broadcast for the BBC, taken from the final scripts in the BBC Written Archives Centre, which were first published in the HWS's Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts (1993; e-book 2014).

 

We do not suppose that this list is definitive; if any reader knows of other reviews, or has copies of reviews that we do not have, please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with details.

 

These reviews and notices present another aspect of HW as writer, and have never before been collected. A comprehensive list of the books reviewed is presented below in three indexes: author, title and the periodical/newspaper in which the review was published. In most cases there are links from each index to the relevant periodicals page where the review itself is available; usually this is a scan of the original review, but it is presented as plain text where the original is unavailable or its quality too poor for reproduction. Other information from the literary archive pertaining to the reviews, such as scans of the (often worn or otherwise damaged) dust wrappers of the review copies, or drafts of the review itself, both manuscript and typescript, has also been added when available. Many of the books have been long forgotten, and some perhaps deserve to be better remembered; while other titles still resonate today.

 

As an aside: HW had an endearing habit of giving away appropriate review copies as presents, and his son Richard has several inscribed to him on his birthdays – one of them five years after the book itself was published and reviewed!

 

 

AUTHOR INDEX

 

TITLE INDEX

 

PERIODICAL/NEWSPAPER INDEX

 

 

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AUTHOR INDEX:

 

 

ANONYMOUS

Fusilier Bluff (Bles, 1934)

The Sunday Times, 22 July 1934

 

ACWORTH, Bernard

Bird and Butterfly Mysteries (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

ADAMSON, Joy

Born Free (Harvill Press & Collins, 1960)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 7 April 1960

 

ALLEN, Jerry

The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad (Methuen, 1967)

BBC, 23 May 1967

 

ALLSOP, Kenneth

Adventure Lit Their Star (Latimer House, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

ARMSTRONG, Benjamin J.

A Norfolk Diary (Harrap, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

ARMSTRONG, Edward A.

The Folklore of Birds: An Enquiry into the Origin & Distribution of some Magico-Religious Traditions (Collins, 1958)

Time and Tide, 6 December 1958

 

ASH, Edward C.

Puppies, Their Choice, Care and Training (Miles, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

BAYNES, John

Morale (Cassell, 1957)

BBC, 28 March 1967

 

BEACH THOMAS, Sir William

The Way of a Countryman (Michael Joseph, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

BLACKMORE, R. D.

Lorna Doone (Sampson, Low & Marston, 1869)

BBC, 15 August 1936

 

BRISTOWE, William S.

The World of Spiders (Collins, 1958)

Time and Tide, 15 November 1958 (we have no copy of this review)

 

BROMFIELD, Louis

From My Experience: The Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm (Cassell, 1956)

Time and Tide, 9 June 1956

 

CAMERON, James

1914 (Cassell, 1959)

Time and Tide, 24 October 1959

 

CAREY, Lewis

My Gun and I (Philip Allan, 1933)

The Sunday Times, 1 October 1933

 

CHALMERS, Patrick R.

Dogs of Every Day (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

CHURCHILL, Winston

Painting as a Pastime (Odhams Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

CLARK, Alan

The Donkeys (Hutchinson, 1961)

The Sunday Times, 16 September 1961

 

CURTIS, Brian

The Life Story of the Fish: his morals and manners (Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

DAGLISH, Eric Fitch

The Life Story of Birds (Dent, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

DARBY, H. C.

The Medieval Fenland and The Draining of the Fens (both Cambridge University Press, 1940)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 19 July 1940 (we have no copy of this review)

 

DAVENPORT, W. Bromley

Sport (MacLehose, 1933)

The Sunday Times, 1 October 1933

 

DUNCAN, Ronald

Journal of a Husbandman (Faber, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 6 March 1944

 

FARRAR, James

The Unreturning Spring (Williams & Norgate, 1950)

Poetry Review, April-June 1959

 

FARSON, Negley

The Sons of Noah (Gollancz, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

FAULKNER, Edward H.

Plowman's Folly (University of Oklahoma Press, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 1 November 1943

 

FISHWICK, V. C.

Good Farming (English Universities Press, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

GAMMON, Clive

Hook, Line and Spinner (Heinemann, 1959)

Time and Tide, 19 September 1959

 

GARDNER, Brian

The Big Push (Cassell, 1961)

Guardian, 12 May 1961

 

GARDNER, Brian (editor)

Up the Line to Death (Methuen, 1964)

Evening Standard, 18 August 1964

 

GIBBINGS, Robert

Over the Reefs (Dent, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

GOETHE

Faust, trans. by Bayard Taylor (Euphorion Books, 1949)

The Adelphi, Autumn Book Number 1949

 

HAGGARD, Stephen

Nya (Faber 1938)

Eastern Daily Press, 7 June 1943

 

HARRIS, C. J.

Otters: A Study of the Recent Lutrinae (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)

The Times, 6 April 1968

 

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

Death in the Afternoon (Jonathan Cape, 1932)

Now & Then, Winter 1932

 

HENDY, E. W.

Wild Exmoor Through the Year (Jonathan Cape, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

HEYGATE, John

Motor Tramp (Jonathan Cape, 1935)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 23 November 1935

 

HICKLING, Grace

Grey Seals and the Farne Islands (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962)

The Sunday Times, 4 March 1962

 

HILLS, R. J. T.

Something About a Soldier (Lovat Dickson, 1934)

The Sunday Times, 22 July 1934

 

HORNBY, Clifford

Rural Amateur (Collins, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

HOYT, Vance Joseph

Silver Boy (Chapman & Hall, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

JAMES, Nora C.

Jake the Dog (Dent, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

JEFFERIES, Richard

The Amateur Poacher, Wild Life in a Southern County (both Jonathan Cape, 1934) and The Gamekeeper at Home (Jonathan Cape, 1935)

Now & Then, Winter 1934

 

JOBSON, Allan

An Hour-Glass on the Run (Michael Joseph, 1959)

The Sunday Times, 7 June 1959

 

JOHN, Augustus

Chiaroscuro: Fragments of an Autobiography (Jonathan Cape, 1952)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 28 March 1952

 

JOHNSTON, John H. (editor)

English Poetry of the First World War (Oxford University Press, 1964)

Evening Standard, 18 August 1964

 

KNIGHT, Esmond

Seeking the Bubble (Hutchinson, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 7 June 1943

 

LAWRENCE, M. R. (editor)

The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers, (Basil Blackwell, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 2 July 1954

BBC, 24 August 1954

The European, November 1954

 

LIERS, Emil E.

An Otter’s Story (Hodder & Stoughton, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 10 September 1954

 

LOCKLEY, R. M.

The Cinnamon Bird (Staples Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

The Golden Year (Witherby, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

Inland Farm (Witherby, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

The Seals and the Curragh (Dent, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

[LONG LANCE]

Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief (Faber & Gwyer, 1928)

Daily Telegraph, 16 November 1928

 

LOOKER, Samuel J. and Crichton Porteous

Richard Jefferies: Man of the Fields: A Biography and Letters (John Baker, 1965)

The Spectator, 20 August 1965

 

LYNN-ALLEN, Esmond and A. W. P. Robertson

A Partridge Year (Geoffrey Bles, 1956)

Time and Tide, 17 November 1956

 

MANHOOD, H. A.

Nightseed (Jonathan Cape, 1928)

Now & Then, Autumn 1928

 

MANNING, Frederic

Her Privates We (Peter Davies, 1964)

Evening Standard, 4 August 1964 (we have no copy of this review)

 

MATTHIESSEN, Peter

Wildlife in America (André Deutsch, 1960)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 22 September 1960

 

MCGUFFIE, Duncan

Cabbages and Committees (Faber, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

MEYNELL, Laurence

Exmoor (Robert Hale, 1953)

Time and Tide, 2 May 1953

 

MOOREHEAD, Alan

The End in Africa (Hamish Hamilton, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

MOYNIHAN, Michael (editor)

People at War, 1914-1918 (David & Charles, 1973)

The Sunday Times, October 1973

 

MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred

The Second Burst (Museum Press, 1951)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 30 November 1951

 

MURRY, John Middleton

Community Farm (Peter Nevill, 1952)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 16 May 1952

 

NICHOLL, A. M. C.

Fifty Years of Birdwatching (John Murray, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

NOAKES, Aubrey

Sportsmen in a Landscape (The Bodley Head, 1954)

Time and Tide, 23 October 1954

 

OSBORN, Fairfield

Our Plundered Planet (Faber, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

PARKER, Ernest

Into Battle: 1914-18 (Longmans, 1964)

The Sunday Times, September 1964

 

PAUL, Leslie

Heron Lake: A Norfolk Year (Batchworth Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

PERCY, Cyril Heber

Hym (Faber, 1959)

The Sunday Times, 12 April 1959

 

QUIN, Ann

Berg (Calder, 1964)

The Aylesford Review, Summer/Autumn 1964

 

REID, Leslie H.

Earth’s Company (John Murray, 1958)

Time and Tide, 22 March 1958 (we have no copy of this review)

 

RICHARDS, Frank

Old Soldier Sahib (Faber, 1936)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 25 April 1936

 

RIDER HAGGARD, Lilias and Henry Williamson

Norfolk Life (Faber, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 19 July 1943

 

RUSSELL, Sir John

The Land Called Me: An Autobiography (Allen & Unwin, 1956)

Time and Tide, 3 November 1956

 

SEAGO, Edward

Peace in War (Collins, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 28 June 1943

 

SENET, André

Man in Search of Ancestors (Allen & Unwin, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

SLADE, Gurney

In Lawrence’s Bodyguard (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York [1930])

MS review, source unknown, perhaps published in USA

 

SMITH, David

No Rain in Those Clouds (Dent, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 6 September 1943

 

The Same Sky Over All (Dent, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

STARKIE, Walter

Scholars and Gypsies: An Autobiography (John Murray, 1963)

The Sunday Times, 15 December 1963

 

STEVENS, Ronald

The Taming of Ghengis (Faber, 1956)

Time and Tide, 17 November 1956

 

STREET, A. G.

Hitler's Whistle (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 15 November 1943

 

STRICK, John

Poems; with a memoir by Harold Nicholson (Percival Marshall, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

STUART, Frank

A Seal’s World (Harrap, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

TAVERNER, Eric and W. Barrington Browne

The Running of the Salmon (Geoffrey Bles, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

THOMPSON, Edward

In Araby Orion (Ernest Benn, London, and Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1930)

New York Herald Tribune, 23 November 1930

 

THOREAU, H. D.

A Writer’s Journal (Heinemann, 1961)

The Sunday Times, 4 June 1961

 

TOMALIN, Ruth

The Day of the Rose: Essays and Portraits (Fortune Press, 1947)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

Threnody for Dormice and other poems (Fortune Press, 1947)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

W. H. Hudson (Witherby, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 16 July 1954

 

TURNER, T. W.

Memoirs of a Gamekeeper (Geoffrey Bles, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 19 March 1954

 

VOIGT, F.A.

Combed Out (Jonathan Cape, 1929)

Now & Then, Spring 1929

 

WALSH, John

Strange Harp, Strange Symphony: The Life of Francis Thompson (W. H. Allen, 1968)

Catholic Herald, March 1968

 

WASHINGTON METCALFE, T.

Memorials of a Military Life (Nicholson & Watson, 1936)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 25 April 1936

 

WHITLOCK, Ralph

Rare and Extinct Birds of Britain (Phoenix House, 1953)

Time and Tide, 2 May 1953

 

WILLIAMSON, Henry

Lucifer Before Sunrise (Macdonald, 1967)

The Aylesford Review, Autumn 1967

 

WILSON, Erle

Minado the Devil Dog (André Deutsch, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

WOLFF, Leon

In Flanders Fields (Longman, 1959)

The Aylesford Review, Spring 1959

Time and Tide, 21 March 1959

 

WRENCH, Sir Evelyn

Francis Yeats-Brown (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

 

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TITLE INDEX:

 

 

1914, James Cameron (Cassell, 1959)

Time and Tide, 24 October 1959

 

ADVENTURE LIT THEIR STAR, Kenneth Allsop (Latimer House, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

THE AMATEUR POACHER, Richard Jefferies (Jonathan Cape, 1934)

Now & Then, Winter 1934

 

BERG, Ann Quin (Calder, 1964)

The Aylesford Review, Summer/Autumn 1964

 

THE BIG PUSH, Brian Gardner (Cassell, 1961)

Guardian, 12 May 1961

 

BIRD AND BUTTERFLY MYSTERIES, Bernard Acworth (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

BORN FREE, Joy Adamson (Harvill Press & Collins, 1960)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 7 April 1960

 

CABBAGES AND COMMITTEES, Duncan McGuffie (Faber, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

CHIAROSCURO: FRAGMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Augustus John (Jonathan Cape, 1952)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 28 March 1952

 

THE CINNAMON BIRD, R. M. Lockley (Staples Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

COMBED OUT, F.A. Voigt (Jonathan Cape, 1929)

Now & Then, Spring 1929

 

COMMUNITY FARM, John Middleton Murry (Peter Nevill, 1952)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 16 May 1952

 

THE DAY OF THE ROSE; ESSAYS AND PORTRAITS, Ruth Tomalin (Fortune Press, 1947)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON, Ernest Hemingway (Jonathan Cape, 1932)

Now & Then, Winter 1932

 

DOGS OF EVERY DAY, Patrick R. Chalmers (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

THE DONKEYS, Alan Clark (Hutchinson, 1961)

The Sunday Times, 16 September 1961

 

THE DRAINING OF THE FENS, H. C. Darby (Cambridge University Press, 1940)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 19 July 1940 (we have no copy of this review)

 

EARTH'S COMPANY, Leslie H. Reid (John Murray, 1958)

Time and Tide, 22 March 1958 (we have no copy of this review)

 

THE END IN AFRICA, Alan Moorehead (Hamish Hamilton, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

ENGLISH POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, John H. Johnston (editor) (Oxford University Press, 1964)

Evening Standard, 18 August 1964

 

EXMOOR, Laurence Meynell (Robert Hale, 1953)

Time and Tide, 2 May 1953

 

FAUST, Goethe, trans. by Bayard Taylor (Euphorion Books, 1949)

The Adelphi, Autumn Book Number 1949

 

FIFTY YEARS OF BIRDWATCHING, A. M. C. Nicholl (John Murray, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

THE FOLKLORE OF BIRDS: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN & DISTRIBUTION OF SOME MAGICO-RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, Edward A. Armstrong (Collins, 1958)

Time and Tide, 6 December 1958

 

FRANCIS YEATS-BROWN, Sir Evelyn Wrench (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

FROM MY EXPERIENCE: THE PLEASURES AND MISERIES OF LIFE ON A FARM, Louis Bromfield (Cassell, 1956)

Time and Tide, 9 June 1956

 

FUSILER BLUFF, Anonymous (Bles, 1934)

The Sunday Times, 22 July 1934

 

THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME, Richard Jefferies (Jonathan Cape, 1935)

Now & Then, Winter 1934

 

THE GOLDEN YEAR, R. M. Lockley (Witherby, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

GOOD FARMING, V. C. Fishwick (English Universities Press, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

GREY SEALS AND THE FARNE ISLANDS, Grace Hickling (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962)

The Sunday Times, 4 March 1962

 

HER PRIVATES WE, Frederic Manning (Peter Davies, 1964)

Evening Standard, 4 August 1964 (we have no copy of this review)

 

HERON LAKE: A NORFOLK YEAR, Leslie Paul (Batchworth Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

HITLER'S WHISTLE, A. G. Street (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 15 November 1943

 

THE HOME LETTERS OF T. E. LAWRENCE AND HIS BROTHERS, M. R. Lawrence (editor) (Basil Blackwell, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 2 July 1954

BBC, 24 August 1954

The European, November 1954

 

HOOK, LINE AND SPINNER, Clive Gammon (Heinemann, 1959)

Time and Tide, 19 September 1959

 

AN HOUR-GLASS ON THE RUN, Allan Jobson (Michael Joseph, 1959)

The Sunday Times, 7 June 1959

 

HYM, Cyril Heber Percy (Faber, 1959)

The Sunday Times, 12 April 1959

 

IN ARABY ORION, Edward Thompson (Ernest Benn, London, and Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1930)

New York Herald Tribune, 23 November 1930

 

IN FLANDERS FIELDS, Leon Wolff (Longman, 1959)

The Aylesford Review, Spring 1959

Time and Tide, 21 March 1959

 

IN LAWRENCE'S BODYGUARD, Gurney Slade (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York [1930])

MS review, source unknown, perhaps published in USA

 

INLAND FARM, R. M. Lockley (Witherby, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

INTO BATTLE: 1914-18, Ernest Parker (Longmans, 1964)

The Sunday Times, September 1964

 

JAKE THE DOG, Nora C. James (Dent, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

JOURNAL OF A HUSBANDMAN, Ronald Duncan (Faber, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 6 March 1944

 

THE LAND CALLED ME: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Sir John Russell (Allen & Unwin, 1956)

Time and Tide, 3 November 1956

 

THE LIFE STORY OF THE FISH: HIS MORALS AND MANNERS, Brian Curtis (Harcourt Brace, NY, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

THE LIFE STORY OF BIRDS, Eric Fitch Daglish (Dent, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

LONG LANCE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACKFOOT INDIAN CHIEF (Faber & Gwyer, 1928)

Daily Telegraph, 16 November 1928

 

LORNA DOONE, R. D. Blackmore (Sampson, Low & Marston, 1869)

BBC, 15 August 1936

 

LUCIFER BEFORE SUNRISE, Henry Williamson (Macdonald, 1967)

The Aylesford Review, Autumn 1967

 

MAN IN SEARCH OF ANCESTORS, André Senet (Allen & Unwin, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

THE MEDIEVAL FENLAND, H. C. Darby (Cambridge University Press, 1940)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 19 July 1940 (we have no copy of this review)

 

MEMOIRS OF A GAMEKEEPER, T. W. Turner (Geoffrey Bles, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 19 March 1954

 

MEMORIALS OF A MILITARY LIFE, T. Washington Metcalfe (Nicholson & Watson, 1936)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 25 April 1936

 

MINADO THE DEVIL DOG, Erle Wilson (André Deutsch, 1955)

Time and Tide, 3 December 1955

 

MORALE, John Baynes (Cassell, 1957

BBC, 28 March 1967

 

MOTOR TRAMP, John Heygate (Jonathan Cape, 1935)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 23 November 1935

 

MY GUN AND I, Lewis Carey (Philip Allan, 1933)

The Sunday Times, 1 October 1933

 

NIGHTSEED, H. A. Manhood (Jonathan Cape, 1928)

Now & Then, Autumn 1928

 

NO RAIN IN THOSE CLOUDS, David Smith (Dent, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 6 September 1943

 

A NORFOLK DIARY, Benjamin J. Armstrong (Harrap, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

NORFOLK LIFE, Lilias Rider Haggard and Henry Williamson (Faber, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 19 July 1943

 

NYA, Stephen Haggard (Faber 1938)

Eastern Daily Press, 7 June 1943

 

OLD SOLDIER SAHIB, Frank Richards (Faber, 1936)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 25 April 1936

 

AN OTTER'S STORY, Emil E. Liers (Hodder & Stoughton, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 10 September 1954

 

OTTERS: A STUDY OF THE RECENT LUTRINAE, C. J. Harris (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)

The Times, 6 April 1968

 

OUR PLUNDERED PLANET, Fairfield Osborn (Faber, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

OVER THE REEFS, Robert Gibbings (Dent, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

PAINTING AS A PASTIME, Winston Churchill (Odhams Press, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

A PARTRIDGE YEAR, Esmond Lynn-Allen and A. W. P. Robertson (Geoffrey Bles, 1956)

Time and Tide, 17 November 1956

 

PEACE IN WAR, Edward Seago (Collins, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 28 June 1943

 

PEOPLE AT WAR, 1914-1918, Michael Moynihan (editor) (David & Charles, 1973)

The Sunday Times, October 1973

 

PLOWMAN'S FOLLY, Edward H. Faulkner (University of Oklahoma Press, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 1 November 1943

 

POEMS; WITH A MEMOIR BY HAROLD NICHOLSON, John Strick (Percival Marshall, 1948)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

PUPPIES, THEIR CHOICE, CARE AND TRAINING, Edward C. Ash (Miles, 1933)

The Sunday Times, day & month unknown, 1933

 

RARE AND EXTINCT BIRDS OF BRITAIN, Ralph Whitlock (Phoenix House, 1953)

Time and Tide, 2 May 1953

 

RICHARD JEFFERIES: MAN OF THE FIELDS: A BIOGRAPHY, Samuel J. Looker and Crichton Porteous (John Baker, 1965)

The Spectator, 20 August 1965

 

THE RUNNING OF THE SALMON, Eric Taverner and W. Barrington Browne (Geoffrey Bles, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

RURAL AMATEUR, Clifford Hornby (Collins, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 17 and 24 January 1944

 

THE SAME SKY OVER ALL, David Smith (Dent, 1948)

The Adelphi, January-March 1949

 

SCHOLARS AND GYPSIES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Walter Starkie (John Murray, 1963)

The Sunday Times, 15 December 1963

 

THE SEA YEARS OF JOSEPH CONRAD, Jerry Allen (Methuen 1967)

BBC, 23 May 1967

 

A SEAL'S WORLD, Frank Stuart (Harrap, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

THE SEALS AND THE CURRAGH, R. M. Lockley (Dent, 1955)

Time and Tide, 8 January 1955

 

THE SECOND BURST, Sir Alfred Munnings (Museum Press, 1951)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 30 November 1951

 

SEEKING THE BUBBLE, Esmond Knight (Hutchinson, 1943)

Eastern Daily Press, 7 June 1943

 

SILVER BOY, Vance Joseph Hoyt (Chapman & Hall, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

SOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER, R. J. T. Hills (Lovat Dickson, 1934)

The Sunday Times, 22 July 1934

 

THE SONS OF NOAH, Negley Farson (Gollancz, 1949)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

SPORT, W. Bromley Davenport (MacLehose, 1933)

The Sunday Times, 1 October 1933

 

SPORTSMEN IN A LANDSCAPE, Aubrey Noakes (The Bodley Head, 1954)

Time and Tide, 23 October 1954

 

STRANGE HARP, STRANGE SYMPHONY: THE LIFE OF FRANCIS THOMPSON, John Walsh (W. H. Allen, 1968)

Catholic Herald, March 1968

 

THE TAMING OF GHENGIS, Ronald Stevens (Faber, 1956)

Time and Tide, 17 November 1956

 

THRENODY FOR DORMICE AND OTHER POEMS, Ruth Tomalin (Fortune Press, 1947)

The Adelphi, April-June 1949

 

THE UNRETURNING SPRING, James Farrar (Williams & Norgate, 1950)

Poetry Review, April-June 1959

 

UP THE LINE TO DEATH, Brian Gardner (editor) (Methuen, 1964)

Evening Standard, 18 August 1964

 

W. H. HUDSON, Ruth Tomalin (Witherby, 1954)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 16 July 1954

 

THE WAY OF A COUNTRYMAN, Sir William Beach Thomas (Michael Joseph, 1944)

Eastern Daily Press, 10 April 1944

 

WILD EXMOOR THROUGH THE YEAR, E. W. Hendy (Jonathan Cape, 1930)

Fortnightly Review, May 1930

 

WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY, Richard Jefferies (Jonathan Cape, 1934)

Now & Then, Winter 1934

 

WILDLIFE IN AMERICA, Peter Matthiessen (André Deutsch, 1960)

John o’ London’s Weekly, 22 September 1960

 

THE WORLD OF SPIDERS, William S. Bristowe (Collins, 1958)

Time and Tide, 15 November 1958 (we have no copy of this review)

 

A WRITER'S JOURNAL, H. D. Thoreau (Heinemann, 1961)

The Sunday Times, 4 June 1961

           

 

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PERIODICAL/NEWSPAPER INDEX:

 

 

The Adelphi

 

The Aylesford Review

 

British Broadcasting Corporation

 

Catholic Herald

 

Daily Telegraph

 

Eastern Daily Press

 

The European

 

Evening Standard

 

Fortnightly Review

 

Guardian

 

John o' London's Weekly

 

New York Herald Tribune

 

Now & Then

 

Poetry Review

 

The Spectator

 

The Sunday Times

 

Time and Tide

 

The Times

 

Unsourced review

 

 

 

 

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