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WE have travelled far since Mrs. Mangnall's “Historical and Miscellaneous Questions”, first published in 1800, was widely used for initiating youth into an encyclopædic knowledge that ranged from the architecture of the universe to such lowly things as the nature and sources of hemp and ginger. The seeming omniscience of the author, no less than the illogical sequence of much of the subject-matter, makes amusing reading to-day, and gives us some justification for pluming ourselves on progress since achieved. Sir Daniel Hall's latest book, written primarily for use in urban schools, marks in a very striking manner the antithesis between the old and the new ways of imparting information. In simple language and easy-flowing style, he relates all those facts about the sources of our daily foodstuffs that a developing adolescent ought to know ; and a slight discursiveness here and there, as well as many excellent pictures and a few maps, adds interest to his narrative.
Our Daily Bread:
a Geography of Production. By Sir Daniel Hall. Pp. xi + 169. (London: John Murray, 1938.) 6s. net.
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T., E. Our Daily Bread. Nature 142, 555 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142555a0
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