Great notice by the book buddhas of THE WEEK-END BOOK:
Written as both advice for guests and travelers, and as a collection to entertain same, Meynell included information on star-gazing, architecture, a complex formula for finding the date of Easter Sunday in any year, periods of animal gestation and incubation, campsite equipment, a birding guide, songs and poems, and a chapter titled "The Law and How You Break It." In the Etiquette section, a piece on saying grace from Leigh Hunt exemplifies the book's eclecticism: "It is not creditable to a 'thinking people' that the two things they most thank God for should be eating and fighting . . . This is odd. Strange that we should keep our most pious transports for the lowest of our appetites and the most melancholy of our necessities!"
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