With a foreword by L. F. Easterbrook. Maye E. Bruce was a Cotswolds-based gardener and founder member of the Soil Association in England, whose Quick-Return method is a simplified version of Rudolf Steiner’s Bio-dynamic method of compost-making. Requiring no turning, Bruce’s ‘herbal activator’ produces fertile and sweet-smelling compost after only four weeks, and is still in use today. In this slight volume, Bruce shares her knowledge and expertise with readers ‘in the hope of helping to give back life to the soil, and thus eventually of abolishing disease in plant, animal and man [sic].’ (p.20).