Peter McArthur’s “Friendly Acres” is a book filled with homely rural humor together with a sound philosophy of life. It is a series of short sketches, each one containing a wealth of incident, description, and practical advice, written by a man who possessed an intimate knowledge of farming. Here you will find laughter at the stubbornness of a runaway pig or advice about feeding cattle charmingly intermixed with appreciations of the wholesome beauty of the world out of doors. The key note of his philosophy lies in the phrase, “the wide sanity of nature which covers everything,” and many of us at present would do well to heed his contention, that “a man who is in harmony with life need not trouble his head about reconstruction, or deflation, or exchange, or any of the other things about which men perplex them selves.”