Abstract
THESE reminiscences cover a period of seventy years of life in rural England—country parishes in the counties of Suffolk, Berkshire and Devon. Their author, James George Cornish, was born in 1860 and died in 1938. Throughout his life, as these records bear witness, he was gifted with an observant eye for the life of the countryside and individual traits in the character of the countryman. His reminiscences have been edited by his brother, Dr. Vaughan Cornish. As he points out, they derive no inconsiderable value from the fact that they preserve continuity over a very considerable period of time. This is especially interesting as in these years crucial changes took place in English agriculture and modes of country life.
Reminiscences of Country Life
James George
Cornish
Vaughan
Cornish
By. Pp. xi + 147 + 8 plates. (London: Country Life, Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Biology. Nature 144, 896 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144896e0
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