168 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white sketches, reprint. The jacket is chipped at the edges and its spine suffers from loss at both the head and tail; there are two ownership signatures on the front end paper and the pages are lightly tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "The best part of this pleasant book concerns arable farming during the last quarter of the 19th century in a part of East Anglia famous for its strict attention to the rules of good husbandry. Reading these pages we are back in the days when women went stone- picking for a penny-farthing a bushel, when beer was brewed on the farm and was food as well as drink, and when cottagers looked to their gleanings for a good part of the winter's supply of bread.John Smith, the farmer whose story his son here set down, has a clear memory for all the farm details of those days.. .." (Spectator Archive 1944 review)