2543 The Edwardian Turn of Mind, by Samuel Hynes (read 17 Oct 1993) This is a 1968 book on the social history of Britain. It deals with social events from 1901 to 1914. Some of it did not interest me--the disregard shown for some of the defenders of standard morality did not influence me to accept Hynes' view thereon--but in general the book is worth reading. I am attracted to much in the period, and think there is good reading to be done which was written then or is about people prominent then. The book spends, though, a lot of time talking about the Webbs and H. G. Wells, neither of which topics greatly interested me. ( )