Review: Little Rays of Moonshine

Little Rays of Moonshine by A.P. Herbert
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A collection of good-naturedly facetious pieces, most of which originally appeared in Punch. I can tell that there are a lot of topical references that I'm not getting (not knowing the society and politics of Britain around 1920 in the same detail as someone who lived there), but I still found them amusing. I especially enjoyed the piece in which Herbert proposed songs along the lines of the Labour movement's The Red Flag for other political parties; the Tories' one is to the same tune and called The White Spat.

Occasional use of language that, a century later, is considered offensive.

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