Capsule Review January 1949 Issue The Character of England by Ernest BarkerReviewed by Robert Gale WoolbertAbout the Author: My FA Anthologies Read more by Robert Gale Woolbert In This Review The Character of England By Ernest Barker Oxford University Press, 1948 595 pp. $10.00 Purchase Facebook Twitter Email My FA Saved Articles Print Profusely illustrated chapters by 27 English men and women on many facets of the changing institutions of their country.