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SO long ago as 1910 the present professor of chemistry in the University of St. Andrews founded a pioneer group of rustic players to stage his Somerset dialect plays in the villages of the West Country. These plays had grown out of the author's upbringing on the borderland of Somerset and Dorset and, in “Farmer's Joy", he has gone back to a district with which he is historically and genetically linked to produce a book which is in the best traditions of all the writers who have enriched the literature of England with their tales of the West Country told in dialect.
Farmer's Joy
By John Read. Pp. xi + 274. (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1949.) 12s. 6d. net.
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H., T. Farmer's Joy. Nature 164, 378 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164378a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164378a0