26 JUNE 1941, Page 18

A Baker's Dozen. By Llewelyn Powys. (John Lane. 6s.) ALL

but one of the thirteen essays which Mr. J. C. Powys has selected from his brother's writings are concerned with the English countryside, in Somerset and Dorset. One is a reminiscence of the years during which the author managed a stock farm in Kenya and knew wild buffaloes that came to share the pasture. His youthful recollections of Montacute and Weymouth inspired the best of these papers. But all are worth reading, for Mr. Powys knew the English country and took pains in writing about it.