Parliamentary historian, chronicler of "Titanic"'s sinking and
Churchill's ascent, annotator of Kipling and of Kenneth Grahame:
GMW Wemyss is, admittedly, these, but much more is he the West
Country's beloved essayist, the wry, fond observer of rural humour,
chalk-streams, proper gardens, and real ale; village cricket,
Evensong, and Lib Dems in their natural habitat. These collected
essays tell of the great themes and small doings of the Valley of
the River Wylye, the twenty-st- ... er, twenty-scone Baker's
Daughter and her dreams of an empire of the Higher Nosh, river and
village, trout and change-ringing, funerals and fetes. His
jewel-like essays, 'The River' - charting the rise of the Wylye and
its course to the sea - and 'The Village', analysing with wit and
learning the development of British settlement patterns from
Downton to the Palaeolithic, are pride of place in this volume. Yet
trout on the dry-fly and ghostly terrors, scrumpy and silver bands,
poets and pubs, rascals and Remembrance Sundays, all receive their
equal due in these warm, wise, and affectionate observations. As he
observes, 'townies think Thelwell a caricaturist: "we" know he drew
from life'; and here the England of Sir John Betjeman and Miss
Read, Barbara Pym and SR Badmin, lives on, in secret corners of
country lanes, beneath a skylark's skies. White horses in the
chalk, the downs and the cathedral's spire, heritage steam trains
and off-spin hit for six: here is a feast for mind and senses
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