TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book: Wonders and Absurdities</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 585 LP - 585 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X700085 VL - 68 IS - 677 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2018/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/677/585.2.abstract N2 - Evans Philip Rhys Slightly Foxed, 2018, HB, 112pp, £12, 978-1910898147Commonplace books, which are essentially scrapbooks containing written items of all kinds including quotations, letters, poems, proverbs, and prayers, have a long history. John Milton’s commonplace book consisted largely of proverbs and wise statements, and in 1706 John Locke produced a guide to making commonplace books, describing techniques for entering proverbs, quotations, ideas, and speeches, including arranging them by subject categories, such as love, politics, and religion. Francis Bacon and EM Forster also kept commonplace books, and WH Auden published his in 1970 as A Certain World … ER -